down and his nose resting on the 
ground. I sneaked up within about 
thirty yards of him, and all of a 
sudden he raised his head and made 
straight towards me with his big horns 
and his hair standing on end. His big 
nostrils were red and he looked quite 
dangerous. I didn’t know whether to 
stand my ground or go up a tree, but I| 
opened fire on the old boy and pumped 
lead into him as lively as I knew how. 
When within about fifteen feet of me 
I shot him between the eyes and he 
went down dead. I felt sorry for the 
poor old fellow after the game fight he 
put up. If I am any judge, I will say 
that moose weighed between eight and 
nine hundred pounds. After dressing 
him I took the hindquarters and started 
home. They were so heavy that I made 
slow progress. It happened to be a 
bright moonlight night, so I had but 
little trouble in finding my way back 
to the cabin. In the morning I started 
out to get the hide and some more of 
the meat. When I arrived at the spot 
where I left the carcass, the wolves had 
been there ahead of me. There was no 
meat left—nothing but the bones. The 
hide wasn’t damaged any so I put it in 
my pack-sack and made a detour to- 
ward home. When within about one 
mile of home I came to a sort of open 
spruce swamp about one-fourth of a 
mile wide. On looking across it I saw 
something coming toward me. At first 
I thought it was a moose, but as it 
came closer I could see that it wasn’t, 
for a moose travels with swinging gait 
like a horse pacing. This beast trav- 
eled more like a deer. I stepped be- 
hind a small spruce tree and, when he 
got within about twenty yards of me, 
I fired, and got him square between the 
eyes. He fell in his tracks without a 
struggle. I found out later that this 
animal was a caribou. After dressing 
him, I hung the two hides up in a tree, 
took the hindquarters and left for 
home. On my way home it began to 
snow quite hard, and it kept snowing 
for three days. When it finally stopped 
there were three feet of snow on the 
level. I was well supplied with food 
for the winter so I had nothing to 
worry about. About three days later 
I started to bring in the hides and 
more meat, but I had a hard time to 
find the place. After wandering around 
for some time I located the hides in 
the tree, so I took some more meat with 
the pelts and made my way home. I 
was very tired from wading through 
the deep snow, but I was happy and 
contented to know that I had plenty of 
meat for the winter. After that I 
busied myself by tanning the two hides 
and making a pair of snowshoes. For 
four months I never once saw a human 
being, and all the company I had the 
whole winter was that of two red squir- 
-rels that hung around the cabin. They |: 

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A Country of Fish and Game 
he E W ca O U N D LA N D A Paradise for the Camper and Angler 
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The country traversed by the System of the Newfoundland Government Railway is exceedingly rich in 
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