December, 1919 
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seventy-six partridges that we saw, a 
number flew from almost under our feet, 
startling us with the roar of their flight. 
One day we heard something ahead, and 
Bob cried “run.” While at full speed ho 
called “left” and we swung out from 
among the trees onto a plain, where fifty 
yards away two great bulls were trotting 
broadside to us, until the guide caused 
them to stop. After loafing around, they 
walked slowly av/ay, one of them later 
even coming two steps towards us. Thus 
about fourteen hundred pounds disap- 
peared from a spot, close to a road and to 
which horses could have been brought 
without cutting even a bush. But I had 
already secured my bull, so Bob took my 
rifle and tried “dry” shooting on their 
sides as they stood, forming such unusual 
targets because of their great size and. 
contrast to the sky beyond. One bull had. 
a fair head and the other a good one. 
Another day a similar performance was 
enacted. A bull stood in the road a half- 
mile from camp and when the guide tried 
his usual game another bull emerged 
from the trees and blanketed the first. 
They moved off slowly and as we passed 
along, we saw one standing among the 
trees, which was an unusual proceeding. 
Two young men from Memphis, Tennes- 
see, who had read a magazine account of 
one of my former trips here told the guide 
jokingly at first that I could not have wit- 
nessed as many as I described, but at the 
end of their trip, they said that they had 
seen about as many as I had. They saw 
a buck so fat that he could not run fast 
and were almost on top of a bull moose 
so big in body and horns that one of them 
while aiming lowered hisj^ifle in astonish- 
ment more than once. 
F or an outside garment I wore a 
sweater made to order, with a great 
cape collar of double thickness, ten 
and one-half inches deep behind and 
twelve inches down the inverted V front 
opening. It afforded wannth and the 
heaviest rains could not wet the shoulders 
of the sweater beneath. Perhaps a sepa- 
rate collar of this kind or w'ith no open- 
ing would make a great protection from 
sudd°n changes in the v.’eather. In the 
coldest days I wore inside the sweater, 
a sieveless addition extending to the 
lower rib and with a high close collar. 
Five snov.’falls, aggregating eighteen 
i'^ohes, opened many pages of the Book 
of Nature and enabled us to realize the 
activities of animals all about us that 
bare ground could not record. Nearly 
every, morning we found a great number 
of fresh moose, deer, fox and wildcat 
tracks; many,»that were mingled with our 
tracks, had been made after we had gone 
to camn in the darkness of the night be- 
fore. We also saw tracks of beaver, mink, 
otter, marten and black cat or fisher. All 
hut a few of the numerous bear were 
tucked away in their winter beds. 
One day a moose had encircled our 
camp after following the road for over a 
mile that we had used that morning. 
From the great tracks, long spacing and 
the many times it returned to the road 
After short swings Into the trees, as 
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