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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXIII TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS
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They walk among the thick underbrush, carrying their horns adroitly to prevent their catching in the branches, and they step so well, and aim so true, that you'll scarcely hear a twig fall as they go.
"They're a timid creature except at times.

Then they'll attack with hoofs and antlers whatever comes in their way.

They hate mosquitoes, and when they're tormented by them it's just as well to be careful about approaching them.

Like all other creatures, the Lord has put into them a wonderful amount of sense, and when a female moose has her one or two fawns she goes into the deepest part of the forest, or swims to islands in large lakes, till they are able to look out for themselves.
"Well, we used to like to catch a moose, and we had different ways of doing it.

One way was to snare them.


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