Over their heads a pair of newly-mated moose-birds fluttered and scolded at them.

He's just been brought in by our boys; they are back with the moose-meat.

He went to the canoe and returned with a roll of stout moose-hide babiche.

One Ellis, an old white man of Guilford, a town through which we passed, not far from the south end of Moosehead, was the most celebrated moose-hunter of those parts.

Out of these the landlord made a good penny, as he charged an extensive percentage upon the original cost,that is, to strangers; but if you were in Button's confidence, then was there no better fellow to intrust with a negotiation for a pair of snow-shoes, or moose-horns, or anything else in that line of business.

But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting.

At the sound of the yelping dogs a man lifted the moose-skin curtain that served as a door.

"Any of these places where there were several moose we called a moose yard.

And when Beatrice was asleep, Neilson stole down the moonlit moose trail and joined his men.

The huge, heavy, ungainly elk, or moose-deer, trotted away from the travellers with speed equal to that of the mustang: elks seldom gallop; their best speed is attained at the trot.

The moose-steaks had vanished like the "snaw-wreath in the thaw" before anything much was said, save: "Nothin' th' matter with moose, hey?" "Nop! Bet your life.

A few crackers, in the pockets of each, was all, in the provision line, that we had provided ourselves with, and though, when we saw the moose-tracks in the sand, we had concluded to rough it, for a single night, for the chance of securing such rare game, yet having secured it, that part of our mission was accomplished, and we turned towards home.

Northwest of Lake Superior, throughout Manitoba and far to the north, is a region heavily wooded and studded with lakes, constituting a practically untouched moose country.

Over the moose-run the two traveled more swiftly and soon they came to the foot of the high hill.

He had brought a pail with him and soon the appetizing odors of boiling coffee and broiling moose sirloin filled the air.

A moose-head and eight scalps at fifteen dollars each isn't bad for one day's work, Rod, old boy!" He had been absent for three hours.

Thenceforth moose-facts and moose-legends become the staple of conversation.

He told us that he had no sooner reached the shore than he had heard a splash in the water near him, and looking up had seen a large moose swimming across to a neck of land at no great distance.

One may study these pictures till he becomes as familiar as a squirrel with fern and tree-bark and moose-wood and lichen, till he knows every trunk and twig and leaf as intimately as a sunbeam. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

They made me think of great frightened rabbits, with their long ears and half-inquisitive, half- frightened looks; the true denizens of the forest, (I saw at once,) filling a vacuum which now first I discovered had not been filled for me, moose-men, wood-eaters, the word is said to mean,clad in a sort of Vermont gray, or homespun.

Thenceforth moose-facts and moose-legends become the staple of conversation.

They are hammered deep into the earth, and afford as good means of traveling as the New Brunswick moose paths.