een the hands and pulled between two people. Then
it is stretched again and smoked over a slow fire that does not blaze.

Woodsmen hunt moose for food and clothing. Townsmen hunt moose for the
satisfaction of killing. But should the townsman fail in his hunt, he
may hire a native "Head Hunter" to secure a head for him; and that
reminds me of one night during the early winter, when a strange
apparition was seen crossing the lake. It appeared to have wings, but
it did not fly, and though it possessed a tail, it did not run, but
contented itself with moving steadily forward on its long, up-turned
feet. Over an arm it carried what might have been a trident, and what
with its waving tail and great outspreading wings that rose above its
horned-like head, it suggested that nothing less than Old Beelzebub
himself had come from his flaming region beyond to cool himself on the
snow-covered lake. But in reality it was just Oo-koo-hoo returning
with a fine pair of moose horns upon his back, and which he counted on
turning over to the trader for some city sportsman who would readily
palm it off as a trophy that had fallen to his unerring aim, and which
he had brought down, too, with but a single shot . . . of $25.

While at work I recalled how Oo-koo-hoo had surmised, before he had
examined the carcass, that he had broken the moose's neck with his
ball, and on questioning him as to how he knew, he replied:

"My son, if an animal is hit in the neck and the neck is broken, the
beast will collapse right where it is; but if hit in the heart, it will
lunge forward; if hit in the nose, it will rear up; if hit in the
spine, it will leap into the air. Yes, my son, I have seen a great
bull buffalo leap lynx-like, into the air, when it was struck in the
spine."

Knowing that the hunter had wanted to procure more than one moose I
asked him why he had not at once pursued the other? And he explained:

"For two reasons, my son: first, because I don't want a bull, I want
the tenderer meat and the softer skin of a cow; and secondly, even if I
had wanted him, I would not have pursued him at once as that would
cause him to run. If a moose is pursued on the run, it overheats, and
that spoils the meat, because the moose is naturally a rather inactive
animal that lives on a small range and travels very little; but it is
quite different with the caribou, for the caribou is naturally an
active animal, a great traveller, that wanders far for i