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Show HOW M003F. IS STALKED. It Is Easy to r?tp Up on Big Bull in Canoe. It Is a very easy matter, requiring little skill but silence, to glldo along In the twilight or moonlight, keeping the canoe in tho shadow or bordering trees, until, when loundlng tho point, the gieat amoiphmiH hulk of a moose looms largo In the middle distance ir old nt the game. It Is no trick to steal forwaid each time his head goes nndei water In Heaiclt of tho tender toots, until within eusy range. s.i)s a wilier In Iti-cieatmu Thus I have ad vanced until forced to slop for safet s sake, for a hull moose If not an animal to be trllli d with I know of two fel lows who, mil) lust rail, paid for their curiosity with a narrow escape It was beroro tho Reason opened Thoy were out at dusk In their canoe, floating float-ing along tonio yards from shore, and on rounding it point h.iw h moose n short distance ahead The) wero unarmed un-armed but felt no f(nr for they ex peeled ovoi) second that the beast would tin u and make on 'nlo Ihe woods Nearer and ne.uer they glided until with tho tush or mi avalanche he was upon them There was nothing noth-ing foi It but to dive Into tho water and swim, which they did, reaching saret) on th opposite bank After smashing the f all canoe Into pieces, the moose ciilml) went ashore and disnppcatcd In the woods. |