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yearlings are protected by law at all 
seasons ; the big bulls only are hunted. 
In consequence the bull moose, like 
the bear and wolf, seems to have laid 
aside all his truculent boldness. Now 
instead of the mighty, ramping brute 
of old that feared nothing in the 
woods, whose anger flared like gun- 
powder at the smallest provocation, 
you fmd generally a silent, cautious 
creature, timid as a rabbit and shy as 
a black duck about showing himself 
where human voices break the still- 
ness and where the gleam of a white 
tent shows amid the somber darkness 
of the spruces. The cows meanwhile 
seem to be losing all their fear of 
^-r , men. Of late years 
