HEADS AND HORNS 



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on my table daily for several years past, has often 

 called to mind an episode of the New Brunswick 

 woods. I had shot a bull with a spread of 55 inches, 

 and on returning the next season to the place 

 where the tragedy was enacted discovered, two or 

 three hundred yards away, the "house" of a bear 

 trap, which had been set the previous year. For 



Moosehorn Napkin Ring 



bait the trapper had used the head of a moose 

 which had been found dead in that vicinity. 

 These abandoned antlers were blanched on one 

 side by the elements, and were of moderate di- 

 mensions, but they were sufficiently heavy to make 

 several napkin rings. The horn was still as hard 

 as ever, and took a high polish on the inner surface. 



A section of a beam which is too small for a 

 napkin ring may be made into a paper-weight, or it 

 may be used as the holder for a small glass ink-well. 



