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distress, and when finally the hunters came in 

 sight of him he stood his ground while the two 

 men circled about him less than fifty yards away. 

 "A venturesome man could have killed him with a 

 knife," says the narrator of the story, but in this 

 he was probably mistaken. Not being venture- 

 some he killed him with a .405 caliber bullet, at 

 close range. One cannot but suspect that this 

 moose had been suffering from a wound or other 

 partial disability. With deeper snow the enter- 

 prise would be relatively easier, but it could not be 

 considered legitimate sport. 



"Walking down" is sometimes the final incident 

 of a hunt in which, for a consideration, a crafty 

 guide guarantees a moose to an inexperienced 

 sportsman. On one occasion, years ago, I was 

 returning from the woods, and found myself in 

 the general lounging room of the sole hotel in a 

 frontier settlement awaiting the supper call. 

 Some one announced the arrival of a tote team 

 with a moose, and sportsmen and guides, with one 

 accord, went out to inspect the prize. The head 

 was nothing remarkable, and I was turning away 

 when a guide nudged me, and said in an under- 

 tone, "Looks like the Dawkins trick!" 



The name was not Dawkins, but for our present 

 purpose this will serve as well as any. 



