MY NEW BRUNSWICK MOOS/'. 



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magazine, holding four cartridges in all, 

 Winchester .32 special calibre, soft- 

 point bullets. T gave him two shots be- 

 fore he moved, then he jumped straight 

 into the river. I gave him another when 

 he jumped, and my last one when he 

 was in the water. He struck and 

 floundered around in the water, which 

 was about five feet deep at this place, 

 being above where the one came in the 

 night before, and above a sand bar. 

 After he was through struggling we 



ance, having stopned al the camp to gel 



cameras, axes, knives and oilier things. 

 With their help we soon had the moose 

 high and dry on the beach, and then be- 

 gan the job of taking off the head, hide, 

 feet, etc. After getting the hide off we 

 took both hind-quarters and the sirloin 

 steak and carried it to camp with the 

 rest of the plunder. We wanted to 

 bring the meat home if we could keep it 

 in good condition. We kept the meat all 

 right, but it was taken by Warden Neil 



BRINGING OUT THE HEADS 



fired a signal shot to let Greene and Dr. 



B know that we had killed a moose 



and needed their help. We then waded 

 into the river and began to work him 

 toward the beach on the island. When 

 we got him as far as we could we began 

 to look him over to see where I had hit 

 him ; there were two bullet holes back 

 of his shoulder, one going through the 

 heart and the other just over the heart, 

 one in the point of the shoulder, going 

 slanting and cutting the jugular vein, 

 and the fourth one going through the 

 forward leg close to the body, almost 

 taking the leg off. After some little time 

 the rest of the party put in their appear- 



at Bangor, Me. We worked hard to 

 keep the meat, making a brush house 

 and hanging it up to smoke, so as to 

 keep the flies away from it. After get- 

 ting the meat cared for we measured 

 the head and found it to be 52-inch 

 spread, with 16 points and 11-inch webs 

 or palms. After the usual smoke talk 

 and pow-wow we turned in for the sec- 

 ond night in camp, and I had killed my 

 moose and a good one at that. The next 

 day Lee and I stayed in camp to skin 

 out my moose head, smoke meat, loaf 

 and clean up camp, Greene taking the 

 Dr. and going up the river to try their 

 luck, for there seems to be more moose 



