. Rod and gun . whence he had come. We werejust making for the place when he reap-peared. This time we downed him, andrunning up I dispatched him with a bul-let through the heart. ]\Iy brother then took his tapeline fromhis pocket and measured the spread,which was forty-four and one-quarterinches, and had eleven points. To boil things down, we stayed thereall night and the next morning startedback, Joe carrying the head. After acouple of days hunting partridge we wentin on the mail team with our moosehead and one dozen and a half of birds. The head was mounted by EmackBrothers, Fredericton, an
. Rod and gun . whence he had come. We werejust making for the place when he reap-peared. This time we downed him, andrunning up I dispatched him with a bul-let through the heart. ]\Iy brother then took his tapeline fromhis pocket and measured the spread,which was forty-four and one-quarterinches, and had eleven points. To boil things down, we stayed thereall night and the next morning startedback, Joe carrying the head. After acouple of days hunting partridge we wentin on the mail team with our moosehead and one dozen and a half of birds. The head was mounted by EmackBrothers, Fredericton, and was a first-class job. It now adorns the hallwayof my brothers house in St. John. I neglected to say that of nine cart-ridges shot at the moose, four hit, namely,two .405 bullets, one of which paunchedhim, the other breaking the backbone;and two 38-40 bullets, one piercing thebrisket, and the other penetrating theheart, at five paces. We were a littlewild, it being our first moose, but we gotit iust the BABY MOOSE CAUGHT ALONG MONTREAL RIVER. R. Anson Cartwright of Cobalt and W. LeHeup. with the two little fellowscaptured while feeding along the rirer banks. Dogs as Companions at Home and Afield BY B. CLAPHAM. arc many people fond ofsport with (lug and gun, who can-not afford to keep a large kennelof bird-dogs or hounds, and it isto this class of sportsmen that I ofter afew ideas anent various breeds which ar^-both useful in the field as well as booncompanions around the home. A manwho is fond of sport naturally wishes hiscannie friend to be of some practical as-sistance to him when out with the if the dog is also companionable^ around the home, so much the ber-ter. There are several breeds of dog whichfulfill the above requirements, and it maybe of some interest to mv readers if weglance over them. When I speak of a dog as being com-panionable around the home, I refer tosuch animals as may be allowed to havefree access to the house, without m
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