The St. Johns herald., 1890-08-07
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 T..iis ! vas in the northern part of Maine. or hunting trip with a party of men from Boston. They had lad good luck with small game, but they wanted Q moose. I told them that
 would show them one before long, and did. One or two days after they began asking mo where the moose was, and kinder got me riled. I took my gun, and told them that I'd get 9 moose pret- ty quick fl they wouldn't come racing around like Q pack of steers. Of 1 went, and had gone about mile when I heard a noise as if the devil had got loose. got up tree as soon as possible, and had just got fairly seated when two of the finest moose 1 ever set eyes on came right under the tree. Here was luck, and took aim at the largest and pulled the trigger"
 Andrew at this point looked rather sheepish, as if he didn't want to pro ceed, but, after considerable urging, the Gardiner News says, he again cOntin- ued
 ''The truth of it was, boys, in my hurry from the camp 1 forgot to bring my cartridges, and didn't even have one in my gun. We'll, I knocked my head against limb and tried to think how was going to get one of those moose, who all this time were eyeing each other like cats and dogs. All of a sudden they started for each other and came ker plunk to- gether, then they backed off again and tried it over. They kept at this for quite a time, and seemed to be getting kind of tired out, and were walking round and round till they got their wind. The largest one was right under me, and I could almost touch his antlers. I never knew how it happened, but down I went, heels over head, and lit right on that critters back. He didn't seem to like this sort of surprise party, and just threw back his head and went, the other one following after; lucky for me the trees in that place were pretty high, and there wasn't much danger of being knocked off by the limbs.
 ''Well, sir, the time that it takes to tell this was enough for that moose to go half mile, and the smaller one pfCc Io1 ;-1 +Lo I c1s ing to the sides of that moose like a cOckroach to biscuit. It was all I could do to breathe, and had lost my hat long ago. I now noticed that we were going toward the camp, and we soon hove in sight of it. l gave a shout, and as l did so felt something slip down my throat. The boys heard the noise, and looking uP saw us coming. Down went the board they were playing cards on, and off they scudded like so many jack rabbits. We were now right in the camping place, and I wanted to stop there, but I didn't, no, sir. I didn't stop there, but just about hundred yards from the camp the moose stopped sud- denly and I went over his head into a brook. I wasn't much hurt, and scram- bled out like a grasshOpper out of a knot-hole, and right in front of mo lay those two moose, dead as a herring. put on as straight face as l could, and walked up to the camp as unconcerned as possible. Here's the moose I prom ised you, boys 1 said, and we went back and cut them up. The boys didn't say word till after supper, and then one of them handed me a looking-glass. As sure as l am what I am, my face, which was covered by a heavy beard when started, was as smooth as a boys, and two of my front teeth were gone. My hat l found on the smaller moose's autler"