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Belmont , 
18S8 . 
March. 2. 
(No. 2). 
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moments later a woman, who had come from the Pay son farm 
house, impelled by curiosity to find out what the Crows were 
about, called to him that she had found a great Owl and ashed 
him to shoot it. On going to the spot he at once saw the bird 
sitting erect and looking, he says, "as big as an Eagle". It 
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stared at him fixedly with its yellow eyes wide open out 
showed no alarm at his presence although he went almost di- 
rectly under the branch on which it was perched. After look- 
ing at it for a moment he fired but missed. At his second 
shot the bird flew across the paddock and alighted on the end 
of a spruce limb but it was badly wounded and soon fluttered 
down to the ground where it stood erect presenting so menacing 
an appearance that Malone did not dare touch it for several 
minutes. If lived two or three hours after this. 
| Lake Umbagog. Great Gray (?) Owl . 
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1898. At about seven o'clock this evening the mysterious Owl 
| Sept. 25. that we hear at Pine Point only at wide intervals began honk- 
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i2£L on the hemlock knoll behind the camp keeping it up for 
several minutes and then moving further off to the eastward. 
He did not hoot at all on this occasion. 
