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THE LIVING WORLD. 
The moose is hunted in Maine during the winter, when the hunter, on his 
snow-shoes, can move rapidly over the crust which gives way beneath the ungu- 
lated feet of the moose. The moose will, on the average, stand sixteen and a 
half hands (or five feet and a half) high, has an ass-like head, protruding eyes, 
broad ears, long legs and 
immense, palmated antlers. 
The chase is always exciting, 
for the animal goes through 
the densest brush, without 
noise or any apparent diminu¬ 
tion of its speed, and by mere 
momentum will press down 
quite large saplings, brushing 
them away as if they were 
made of floss instead of wood. 
Its senses of sight, scent and 
hearing are extraordinarily 
acute, and create the necessity 
for the greatest caution on 
the part of the hunter. It 
is semi-aquatic during the 
summer mouths, when it 
fallow DEER. has to protect itself not solely, 
against the insect which uses 
the moose's flesh for a nest, but also against the numberless species of flies, 
gnats and mosquitoes which infest its habitat. Its tenacity of life is very 
remarkable, as may be 
illustrated by the fact 
that a moose , which had 
lost the use of one hind 
leg, and had had one 
of its shoulders broken, 
still managed to keep 
the hunters chasing it 
for forty-eight hours 
before it finally eluded 
them. Frequently the 
moose will take to the 
water, and expose only 
its horns and nostrils. 
This renders the shoot¬ 
ing of them, while in 
the water, a matter of 
the nicest skill, and, as 
dead deer do not float, reindeer. 
the enterprise has all the 
elements of interest for the true sportsman. Compared to this, the chase over 
the snow, into which the creature cuts at every step, and, still more, the slaugh¬ 
ter of the moose in the snow-yards which it builds for its protection, is tame. 
