| Show big game the magnifying 0 power of mist lias has often been described describe ed but perhaps never in a more striking manner thau than by mr pike in his account of his travels in the barren ground of northern canada we were traveling in a thick fog and saw an animal apparently at some d distance bounding along 0 the ho horizon s at a most remarkable pace all down the line there were cries of musk ox v T wolf I 1 guns were snatched from the sleighs and the dogs charged at a gal lop in pursuit of the stran strange cre animal anim al after a rush of ton ten yards the quarry disappeared the first man had put his t foot on it and it turned out to bo be one of the small mice so BO common in that coun f try |
