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i October, 1922 
' “At last I have fulfilled the fondest , 
dream of my life.” | 
He had a wonderful spread of antlers, I 
measuring 50 inches. | 
After skinning and quartering the > 
moose we walked to camp, ate lunch, had 
a hot drink and with one of the horses 
attached to an improvised “Indian buggy” 
made from saplings, held together with 
baling wire, returned to the bog. We 
had to make a second trip to bring the 
meat into camp, as the trail was rough 
and soft in spots, besides there were 
many windfalls to contend with, and it 
was late in the afternoon when we had 
completed our work. 
As it was raining heavily, with no 
signs of letting up for the night, we 
decided to move our tent and duffel into 
the old shack. We had patched up one 
side of the roof with boughs and mud, 
and were assembling an old stove when 
in stepped Frank and Vealla carrying a 
caribou, strung on a pole. At the sight of 
this Roy and I let out a mighty “Hooray,” 
fhen, after an exchange of compliments, 
we all set to work to make camp as com- ' 
fortable as possible before night, as it ‘ 
was already getting dark. We were all 
so tired and hungry that we ate our 
supper in -silence and were sitting on 
blocks, enjoying a smoke and drying our 
clothes around a roaring fire in the old 
stove, when Frank gave us the story of 
how he got his caribou. 
They were hunting on the side of a 
ridge when they sighted a moving object 
down a ravine and they stood for several 
minutes, being unable to discern in the 
mist just what it might be, when a 
caribou showed itself in a little barren 
upon which Frank fired, breaking the 
animal’s neck. 
“How far did you say it was trom 
you ?” queried Roy, suspiciously. - I 
“I hadn’t said that it was any distance 
from me, but I will say that it was all 
of 200 yards,” answered Frank a little 
heatedly. 
Roy shot Frank a sidewise glance, as 
though in doubt, which Frank Caught. 
“Isn’t that right, Vealla?” Frank asked 
excitedly. 
“You bet. She was one grand shot, 
I tell you those,” Vealla corroborated, 
with an assuring shake of his head. 
Much discussion followed, which final- 
ly led Frank to ask which one of us 
shot the moose. Roy turned to me with 
a smile and winked as he started to re- 
fill his pipe, while I immediately got very 
busy trying to crowd an oversized chunk 
of wood into the stove. After a little, 
Frank repeated the question, with a per- 
plexed look at Roy, who directed a hur- 
ried glance at me, followed by a broad 
smile, but neither of us spoke. 
Frank eyed us curiously for a few 
moments, then blurted out: “Say, did 
you guys find that moose dead on the 
trail, or did you shoot him ?” whereupon 
Roy burst into a loud, hearty laugh and 
a few minutes later confessed that he 
had gone hunting with an empty gun. 
This was too much for Frank, as he ’ 
evidently hadn’t forgotten the roasting 
he had received from Roy the night pre- 
vious, and he saw a chance for revenge, 
ile sat looking at Roy for several mo- 
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