The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-02-04

Smith, a well-known rauchman of
Gonzales county. Although he stopped
Iver but day, he had one large pack
age taken to the hotel, and looked
after it SO closely that one of his
acquaintance finally rallied him
about it, inquiring what relic he was
guarding so carefully. The inquiry
was repeated so often by various ac-
quaintances that Col Abner finally, in
the presence of three or four chosen
friends, drew the bolts, unfastened the
straps, raised the lid of the long box
and disclosed magnificent pair of
moose horns, fully six feet from tip to
tip, and bearing twenty points. When
the EXPLANATIONS of surprise and de-
light were over, he was urged to tell
all about it; and having lighted pre-
paratory cigar, he remarked musingly:
Its very nice thing TO have those
horns in a box taking them home, but
those same horns came very near get
ting me into box, which would have
been quite another thing let me tell
you. AS the story happens to have this
kind of an outcome, though, 1 am, for
tunately, in posit ion to tell about it,
SO here goes:
Prom southwest Texas to northern
Maine is good long way. It's little
difficult to believe, having seen them
both, that they belong to the same
country. don't mind telling you that,
though | have seen a good deal of the
United States, this was my first visit
to New England. My little sister,
Nellie, you know-the pretty one, Ben,
that you used to fancy-oh! you re-
mem Der, do you-well, she married
Maine man three years ago, and this
summer pad her my first visit. She
lives in Bangor, and her husband is
big lumber dealer there. with interests
in half dozen mills in different parts
of the state. He's fine fellow-Felix
Andrews is his name-and he spared no
pains to- make my visit a delightful
one. We spent several weeks on the
coast fishing and bathing and having a
royal time generally, and were really
intending to stay longer when Felix
received a message from one OF his
managers, calling him to come up i'm
nediately as his presence was neces.
sary to settle some disturbance and
bad feeling that had arisen among the
men, who threatened revolt. don't
like to 60 away and leave you, Ah,'
said Felix, obviously; but an idea had
presented itself to me, and replied:
Felix, l think III go with you if
You don't object ! have always
wanted to see the northern part of the
state. I'll just seize this opportunity ;
Felix was only too glad to have
company, and so we started on that
memorable trip. / think that one
journey included. more variety of con-
veyance than any Il ever took We
travelled by boat. by stage coach. by
OK wagon. and finally took the last few
miles horse back, arriving at the great
mill about as nearly frozen as any two
people you ever saw. l forgot to tell
you that this was the first week in Oc-
tober. had stayed past the summer
because wanted to get a taste of a
real Maine winter; just to see what it
was like-and by the time reached
that mill Isknew all about it. There
was apparently no bottom to the snow,
fences were out of sight, and it was
desperately cold.
We'll, we ltayed at the mill until
Felix got everything Strengthened up
among the men,. 1t was the fourth
day, think, that the manager said:
MIR. Andrews, some of the men have
been saying that there's moose about
ten miles up the river, near the mar
rows There were several yards up
there last winter. but we hunted them
out pretty well. 1t a, good grazing
place, though, and they Nay the moose
are gathering in again You may,
imagine what thrill went over me at
the mere suggestion. The bare idea Of
me, native Texan, going on a moose
hunt away in Maine Selix laughed at
me and said that l would find it was
not so much fun at last. but he was as
eager ash. Maine man as he was, lite
had never been moose hunting but
twice in his life. We prepared for a
hunt, however, a wagon load of camp