The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-22

then come UP with him and drive him
further into the woods with flickinSs of
At last the moose became thoroughly
enragRd He realized that TINS strange
away from his warm stall and Din OF
provender. Jack turned in his tracks. His
and on his. neck. His bulboUs nose
swung menaclngiy- His eyes cleaned
redly-
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''Glong!" cried the commissioner and
he made sweep at the animals legs
with the whip Jack came forward stir
legged Tor Two or three jumps. and Uhen
right left he struck out with his for
ward feet one sharp hoof. Went on one
side OF the commissioner head and the
other grazed the opposite ear The conf
missioner ducked, and. very nuCh
alarmed o. the suddenness and fierce
ness of the attack ran away. with the
moose follOwiu- The calf wasn't large
enough TO do much damage to the OF
tlcer, yet once 9- twice on the way back
TO the barn jack succeeded in giving The
lugltiVe stiff hump in the back.
&C happened that nearly score OF
ncigh5Crs had assembled at the barn. at
tracted there by the story that the state
officers were looking I'D the moose ease
Ihey had watched the chairman of the
commission chase Jack away into the
deep woods with mingled feelings There
was only one sentiment when they saw
MIN coming back, Jack chasing him. The
chairman came INTO me yard IN the MIDST
of q storm of hurrahs and laughter. He
Clmbed the great pile of wood that mad
peen thr0Rh INTO the center of the door
yard to Season. and the moose skirted
us base and snorted contempt and de
nance-
The commissioner was Thoroughly an
gered7 and ordered Bray to drive the
moose into the woods
.That hain't my business" declared the
Old man; its yours. You tell me this
moose is a ward of the state You drive
the moose yourself.
cord into the barn and begun munching
MS twlgs with many angry. nervous
shorts, the commissioner came down
from the woodpile and ordered the crowd
TO assist him as a posse
s But Bray interfered. He said that the
moose. should not be driven into the
woods to be the prey of some hunter, for
the animal was so tame that the Iirst
capture him He SAID that under the
circumstances he and his nephew had
9oldlneu certain right IN the matter. and
that he would carry the case through the
courts, clear TO the highest tribunal in
the state. The commissioner went away
and the moose remained in his stall
When Bray died the suit had NOT been
settled, but the determined old man left
a sum TO the moose in his will with in
Strucuons to the trustees TO fight the
thing through But the state abandoned
the matter.
Some time ago johnson got hold Of
the moose and began the job of break
ing him to harness. At first he was
afraid of the animal, and the moose was
stan more afraid Of Johnson and his
straps. Never had tn ancestor of that
moose submitted to the indignity of be-
ing harnessed and hitched' to a cart.
After many trials, Johnson at last
coaXed the moose 10 haul him around
the dOOryard on little cart with
wooden trucks. Then, growing boider,
ne VentUred down into the village with
his turnout. OF course, everyone has
tened out to. see, and then the moose
became frightened and ram away.
j determined 10
didn't want to lose his moose and so he
steered Ihe runaway down the street ana
moose ran five miles, for the ordinary
bits made no impression on his great
highway his legs SOLDERING four ways
at once, he created CONSERVATION
There were half a dozen rUnaways in
his wake. Every horse that saw him
coming either feli down in a fit or
joined IN the Wild race once in a While
the moose would lift his hubbard
low, 1t sounded like a fog horn on d lee
shore- johnson concluded that the
by the arch fiend himself. As he Went
sky-hOOung and ricOchetinE along on his
trucks, he was several times nearly
bralned by chunks of earth that came
spinning from the hOOfs of the run
away. He remembered that several
steep and rocky hills we're ahead of him
and he was getting ready to take his
chances and roll off, when suddenly
Jack slowed down and snuffed inQUirng-
" over "A rail fence.
AS the SAVIOR in that direction ap-
peared TO suit him, he calmly knocked
down q portion of the fence and dragged
himself and his burden through. Then
with Johnson pulling with all his might
on the bits, the moose meditatively
walked over into a grove of birch ana
began stripping the branches within
reach, the overriding OF his great nose
WObbling contentedly as he slowed the
twigs out of sight in his mouth.
Johnson says he hasn't any idea how
the moose viii perform on race track,
with the band playing and the people
shouting, but he proposes to try the
thing on, and il he dies he will at. least
go into blaze of glory along with
trOtting moose.
Boer cbiIdren III British camns