St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-13
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LACK OF TINIIDITY.
A Canadian Forester's Curious
Adventure With Quiet Animal.

A Canadian Forester's Curious
Adventure With Quiet Animal.
Forest and Stream.
A very remarkable adventure befell
my two daughters on Saturday after
noon last while on their way to the
MastigOuche lakes, where they usually
spend several weeks every summer.
About quarter of mile beyond the
last settlement (Mastigouche), where
the woods road to our camp begins.
there is an abandoned clearing of some
few acres in extent, now OyergrOWn
with ferns, raspberry bushes and
shrubs.
The blackboard, with my two daugh-
tiers and driver David Provost, who is
on we'll known to all the visitors at the
lakes, had just entered the clearing.
when David suddenly stopped his
horse, and, pointing with his whip, said:
"Oh, look at the caribou" And there,
some 200 yards or less directly in front
of them, was fine caribou quietly feed
ing, and apparently unconscious of their
presence After looking at him for
some moments David said he would
drive Oh slowly and see how near ne
could get. After covering about half
the distance the caribou looked up at
them, and, evidently thinking there
was nothing very alarming IN their
presence, quietly returned to It's iced
ing.
David then drove slowly along to see
how close he could approach without
frightening it. away. and when within
some forty or fifty yards it walked into
the woods, but almost Immediately re-
turned and stood gazing at them. AS
the team still drew nearer, it again
turned into the woods, but this time
came out again close to the wagon and
walked deliberately toward them. David
put out his hand and called, and the
animal reached out his head to smell OF
his fingers. 1t then passed on TO the
horse, walking alongside OF 1t. then
crossed in front under the horses neck
and back along the other side, so close
to the blackboard that my daughter
could have put her hand on it, then
around the back of the wagon and up
again on the other side near the horse.
David thinking that, as the animal
seemed so tame, he would try to eaten
it, handed the reins to my daughter,
quietly got down and approached the
caribou, holding out his hand and CALI
ing to it, when it put out It's nose ana
smelled of him. He rubbed its nose,
scratched its head, which it put down
and rubbed against him, and finally got
up close alongside of it and threw his
arms over its neck and grasped the long
hair underneath. Then the caribou
jumped and struck at David with its
feet, but fortunately did not strike him.
David meanwhile grasped 1t under the
throat with his other hand and held on,
and in the struggle both fell to the
ground, David OH top. The girls, OF
course, were very much excited
and kept calling to David not
to hurt the poor creature, but to
let 1t go; and as it lay there
painting after Provost got up they were
sure he had broken its leg, or hurt 1t III
some other way so seriously that II
| could not get up. However, after punch
| ing it with his foot once or twice, the
carbon got up. shook itself and moved
slowly away. and, as David got into the
wagon and drove off, the last the girl
| saw of it it was quietly feeding again
as if nothing had happened.
| From the description given OF the an
imal | should judge it to be female
about eighteen months old and full
| grown.
The place where this happened is
near the Mastigouche Club lakes, in the
| Laurentian range of mountains, abou
ninety miles northeast of Montreal, and
| in locality probably we'll known to
number of your readers.