. The trial to the woods. d in the mat-ing season to the lonely lake. Sometimes he wouldbring his mate with him from the great Barrens tothe north, or frequently he would find her alongsome of the water courses that fed the lake. The Tall Bull of the Umbago was both the envyand despair of hunters. It was said he could detectat once the hollow sham of the best moose call, andhe was so wary and his life was so well ordered thathe had rarely felt the sting of lead, and had neverbeen hard hit. While in his own domain, as lord ofthe Umbago country, he reigned supreme. Occa-sionally a reckless bull,
. The trial to the woods. d in the mat-ing season to the lonely lake. Sometimes he wouldbring his mate with him from the great Barrens tothe north, or frequently he would find her alongsome of the water courses that fed the lake. The Tall Bull of the Umbago was both the envyand despair of hunters. It was said he could detectat once the hollow sham of the best moose call, andhe was so wary and his life was so well ordered thathe had rarely felt the sting of lead, and had neverbeen hard hit. While in his own domain, as lord ofthe Umbago country, he reigned supreme. Occa-sionally a reckless bull, perhaps not knowing hisdanger or not fearing it, would stray into the lakecountry, but he usually left in hot haste, badlymauled and beaten, or else was borne down and 62 beaten into a mass of pulp beneath the big bullshoofs. Forty miles to the south, along the course of tworivers, one coming from the mountains and one fromthe Barrens, and both meeting in the marsh country,dwelt the White Ghost, the great albino bull who. The Tall Bull of the Umbago was half a myth and half a reality in the who had seen him averred that he was fullya half larger than the average moose, while thosewho had not, said he was a phantom, or the wildconjuring of spirits and water. Like the Tall Bull of the Umbago country, theWhite Ghost knew no equal and tolerated no rival 63 along the water course and in the foothills where heranged. One autumn, when the forest was ablaze withcolor and the moonlight of Indian summer hadwarmed the blood in the veins of the bull moose, theTall Bull of the Umbago country set out on a pilgrim-age, caring not where he went, so long as he traveledfar and feed was good, for that restlessness of themating season was upon him and he expected some-where in the great wilderness to hear the call of thecow moose that would summon him to the first ofmany a tryst under the scarlet forest. On the edgeof the great tamarack swamp he heard the call forwhich he ranged
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