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up the river than down. Everything was 

 quiet until about sundown, when we 

 heard the guide calling where we had 

 killed the moose the day before. After 

 some little time we heard the reports of 

 a gun being fired very fast, and then the 

 firing stopped and everything was quiet 

 for a minute, and then it broke out 

 again. Lost him, we said ; then waited 

 15 or 20 minutes until the others came 

 to camp, and reported calling a big- 

 moose out and shooting at him, knock- 

 ing him down. Dr. B , thinking he 



had got him, stood watching him, when 

 he got on to his feet and made across 

 the river, the Dr. being so surprised that 

 he forgot to shoot until he had gained 

 the woods on the other side of the 

 stream, when he began shooting at him, 

 but on account of the poor light he did 

 not hit him. He was feeling bad about 

 it all night, but the guide told him to 

 cheer up, as he was almost sure they 

 could find him in the morning, as the 

 moose was bleeding badly and was hard 

 hit. So the next morning they went 

 across the river and took his trail, which 

 they could follow easily, as he had bled 



so badly. Dr. B used a Winchester 



405 calibre, and it made a big hole in 

 the moose. Lee and I were in camp 

 smoking meat, cleaning and salting 

 hides when we heard more shooting in 



the direction that Dr. B and the 



guide had taken, followed by the signal 

 shot, letting us know that the moose was 

 dead. We immediately took cameras, 

 axes and went across the river to where 

 they were and they had him down and 

 he was a big moose. We took his meas- 

 urements and found him to be 8 feet 6 



inches long and 6 feet 4 inches high 

 from point of hoof to top of the shoul- 

 ders, having a nice even head of 54 

 inches spread with 18 points. After tak- 

 ing pictures and cutting off his head and 

 hide we left him ^o the moose birds, as 

 he was an old fellow and his meat was 

 tough, and we had all we could do to 

 keep the flies away from the camp. I 

 wished it had been some of this meat 

 that Warden Neil, of Bangor, Me., 

 seized instead of the other, as that was 

 good meat. Having all the moose the 

 law allowed, we waited until Monday 

 and went on to some barren land, hunt- 

 ing caribou. Saw plenty of tracks, but 

 it was so hot and the black flies both- 

 ered us so that we gave it up after one 

 day, and spent the rest of our time 

 around camp, having a good time. 

 We left camp the next Monday 

 and arrived home Wednesday, Oc- 

 tober 14 being gone seventeen days 

 from home. We expected our meat, 

 which we had taken such good care of, 

 but we found that Warden Neil, of Ban- 

 gor, Me., had seized the same on some 

 cock and bull story about illegal ship- 

 ment, and sold it for the good of 

 the state. He probably got 7 or 8 dol- 

 lars for it, and I guess the state of 

 Maine needs it if any state does. It will 

 never get another $15 license out of me 

 or any one that I know of if I can help 

 it. Would say that if any one wants to 

 kill a good bull moose and wants to be 

 practically sure of it before he leaves 

 home, I don't know of any one that 

 could do anv better for them than Dr. 

 H. A. Greene, of Centerville, New 

 Brunswick. 



