CHAPTER XI 



THE NAMES OF THE MOOSE 



A PARTY of sportsmen and guides reached an old 

 logging camp at the close of a short autumn day, 

 and set about the simple task of making the place 

 habitable for a season of moose hunting. 



Most of the log structures which had formed the 

 wood-choppers' little settlement had fallen into 

 decay, but one of the smaller cabins had been 

 kept in condition for the use of occasional parties 

 of hunters. With roof and windows in repair, 

 and walls freshly chinked with moss, this cabin 

 was as habitable as ever. The guides, trained 

 from childhood in the use of the ax, soon had an 

 ample store of fuel for the night, and were gathering 

 boughs to cover the withered remains of the beds 

 used by the previous occupants. The old cook- 

 stove — and who ever saw a new cook-stove in a 

 logging camp.^ — was quickly glowing with heat, 

 and fitfully gleaming with light through the broken 



castings, held together in places by rusty hay wire. 



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