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they fled to the edge of the clearing. The large 

 bull then attacked the two bulls which had first 

 appeared, and a bitter contest between the three 

 ensued, in which thrusts of antlers alternated with 

 angry roars." 



The fight raged furiously at fifty paces' distance 

 from the hunters, one after another of the bulls 

 being thrown to the ground, but quickly regaining 

 his feet, and resuming the battle. The narrator 

 was about to fire at one of the struggling elk, 

 but the guide restrained him, saying that they 

 should approach and fire at a shorter distance. 

 The three men then advanced to within seven paces 

 of the combatants, and the two sportsmen, each 

 singling out a victim, fired simultaneously. Two 

 more shots were fired at the third elk, and the 

 three animals lay on the ground dead.^"^ 



Calling, by either the American or Russian 

 system, is rarely practiced in Scandinavia. Lewis 

 Lloyd, who wrote more than sixty years ago, 

 tells, however, of elk in Dalecarlia being brought 

 within gunshot by the music of a violin played in 

 ambush. He does not tell us the favorite air of 

 the elk. Probably the Swedish national anthem 

 would do as well as anything. Captain Lloyd 

 relates how an elk on one occasion charged Into a 



»4 Martenson, ubi supra, p. 150. 



