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path, which led from the cahin door to 

 the lake, about one hundred feet away. 

 We had no more than comfortably 

 seated ourselves in the canoe when we 

 distinctly heard a splash in the water. 

 The guide noiselessly paddled us out 

 of our little nook into the lake, and, 

 behold, we faced a band of seven im- 

 mense moose, two bulls, three cows 

 and two calves. They scented danger, 



there was larger game to be had. I 

 made up my mind to have a moose if 

 possible. To shoot one of these would 

 require more patience and better wood- 

 craft than we had yet shown. 



The next morning we started for the 

 Home Camps, and it was with difficulty 

 we picked our way over the slippery 

 rocks and across the many streams 

 (packing the deer I had shot in our 



Photo by J. C. Strauss, St. Louis 

 MRS. JOHN F. VAN SAUN 



and were rapidly making for the back 

 woods. We canoed around to a fa- 

 miliar ford where we saw fresh moose 

 tracks, got out of the canoe and hid 

 behind some old brush and fallen trees, 

 hoping the moose might cross this ford 

 on their way to the hardwood ridges. 

 We waited in vain. Not a sound to 

 be heard ; so we wandered into the 

 woods a little distance and gathered a 

 half gallon of wild cranberries, jumped • 

 in our canoe and paddled back to camp. 

 We were not quite satisfied, although 

 we each had- a buck for our score, as 



tramp into this hut), to the place where 

 we had left the canoe. We reached 

 Home Camps in time for a venison din- 

 ner, which we certainly enjoyed, and 

 that afternoon was spent in exchang- 

 ing experiences with the different 

 sports who happened to be in camp. 

 We decided to be up early next morn- 

 ing, in order to try our luck for moose 

 in these parts. At a quarter past four, 

 as Jack went out of our cabin to the 

 dining one for breakfast, he spied the 

 head of a deer that was standing in the 

 brush at a distance of 150 yards. He 



