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Show ! Tho (J hint Moose at Home. "Wo enjoyed a sight which comparatively compara-tively few white men have seen. Favored Fa-vored by the storm wo had crept. almost w 1 1 hi n imicli or the herd of uioioe, ami wo could easily have killed threu or more. Even then l hey could not wind us. They were merely uneasy uud not ut all sure what danger threatened. 1 "The old cow still cjwl us, and I could Bee her bread muflle quivering ns her nostrils valu.y strove to eatch some taint on thu bnllllug wind. Suddenly, us though moved by a common Im pulse, all the mooso drif'ed ahead, hI. lot.;, ghost-llku shapes of black, gliding soundlessly through the close growing scrub, until they seemed but so many wiud'Dlown phantoms. "It was simply past belief that creatures crea-tures of their eiinrmniH hulk aud weight eouhl move over sueh ground without cuvslng no uud of u row, yet they did snj "Dlreotly befnro us ono of tho last encountered a hugo fallen pluc. The trunk was more than waist-high above the ground, but thu muoso merely halted, halt-ed, raised Itself for an Instant erect upon Its hlud legs aud, then leaped the obsiruetion almost without a sound. Gilding between the thn trees they vanished van-ished as If hy magic." Ed. W. Suttdya In Otitlug. |
