The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-04-16

up the tree, but look at its i'm
mense trunk showed him that that
was out of the question, for
the pine was without branches, for
over fifty feet from the ground;; be-
sides, its girth was more than he could
embrace. There was nothing for him
to do but dodge around the tree until
the tutor, attracted by the report Of
the shooting, would come on the sceas;.
shoot the moose and relieve him. M
he could only avoid the brute then ftr
little while all would be we'll
With that hope in his hear he felt
equal to the emergency. The moose
after each successive charge would re-
tire ten or fifteen feet, pause for a sec
ond or two and then, Will, a below
that made the branches culver, bear
down upon his foe. Twenty minutes.
of this perilous dodging began to tell
upon the viscount He felt himself.
growing exhausted, while the mad
moose seemed to be growing madden.
What was to be done? The tutor had,
evidHltly wandered too far away to.
hear the report Or else something had
befallen him. If he could only burrow
in the snow out of sight, but that was
impossible. for the snow was barely
three feet deep on the level.
Then during one of the pauses that
the moose took to gather wind plan
to escape came to him. Gould he not
take off his fur coat and when the
moose bore down on him throw the
hA xose nj
run for his life. The thought gave him
fresh energy. In an instant the gar
ment was off and in his hand. and, when
the animal advanced, with an adroit
swing the coat was thrown over the
horns and the viscount tore away down
the path with the speed of rocket.
The sudden turn of affairs bewil-
dered the animal. He shook his head
in fairy and rage, but the coat still
chung to the prongs, partially binding
him. Again and again he endeavored
to shake the garment off, but without
avail Each shake entangled it more.
Finding that his efforts were useless
he dashed away on the path, but in a
direction opposite to that taken by the
viscount Just then the tutor. after
running up one path and down the
other without hardly knowing whether
he was coming in the right direction or
not, hove in sight, and seeing the
moose flying down the path with the
viscount's coat on his head. came to
the conclusion that the nobleman was
in the coat, and was, of course. prompt
ly stricken with horror at the awful
fate of the house of Kilfoyle borne
away by fierce animal to be de-
voured. What a story Rev. Mr.. White
would have to tell to friends in Eng
land-that the lord of Kllfoye had
actually been carried away, and all by
terrible animal in a Canadian wood.
With the disappearance of the moose
the tutor thought the safer thing to do
under the circumstances was to make
for civilization, and as civilization
could not possibly be in the same line
that the moose had taken he went the
opposite way. After journeying along
utterly disconsolate voice from the
branches of a spruce tree startled him.
1t was the viscount, who, becoming ex-
haust ed from his rapid run. sought the
shelter of this small tree until he could
regain his strength and scattered wits.
The JOY of the tutor was unbounded
He would be relieved from telling of
that awful beast that carried his patron
away on his horns Then together
they made for the place of meeting
with the habitant and returned to Otta-
wa, where his lordship told his thrill
ing experience. The fate of the fur
coat is unknown (Ont Cor.
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