. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . n enemy for a mile or more, and you will wasteyour time if you pursue him when he has once ascertained that you areafter him. We circled round so as to approach against the wind without dis-turbing the bulls in their fight, and had the satisfaction of getting withintwenty yards of them. I took one, and my friend the other, and we tired THE YOUNG NIMBODS. so close together that the Indian heard only one report. My friendsmoose fell dead with a bullet through his heart, but mine had only hisfore-shoulder broken. He gave two or three jumps
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . n enemy for a mile or more, and you will wasteyour time if you pursue him when he has once ascertained that you areafter him. We circled round so as to approach against the wind without dis-turbing the bulls in their fight, and had the satisfaction of getting withintwenty yards of them. I took one, and my friend the other, and we tired THE YOUNG NIMBODS. so close together that the Indian heard only one report. My friendsmoose fell dead with a bullet through his heart, but mine had only hisfore-shoulder broken. He gave two or three jumps to get away while Iwas putting another cartridge in my breech-loader; then I finished himwith a shot through the head. Both these animals were of the largest size, and the antlers you arelooking at came from the one that fell under my bullets. But I haventtold you how large the moose is. This animal is the largest of the deer kind in America. lie isknown to the scientific as Alee Americanus, and is gifted with wonderful ,, »> /// /// MtA ^JBF N) Wm. EXAMINING TRACKS. powers of speed and endurance. He is as large as an ordinary horse, be-ing five feet high, and about seven feet from the tip of his nose to theroot of his tail, and he weighs from eight to twelve hundred pounds. Heis not a handsome beast, and would never be selected as a type of animalbeauty by an artist. The most remarkable features of the moose are his horns. Themale is the only one allowed to wear these ornaments, though once in agreat while a horned female moose is killed. The horns sprout when theanimal is young, and acquire the length of about an inch during his firstyear. They require five years for their full development, and the horns MOOSE AND ELK HUNTING. 95 of a large male moose will often weigh from fifty to seventy pounds;those before you weighed sixty-three pounds when I brought them home,and we estimated that the body of the animal would tip the scale attwelve hundred pounds easily. So you can s
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