The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-12

They We're four of the most expert
hunters, and most utterly abandoned
jokers who ever "held on" deer or
moose, and their one ambition when
the season opened this year was to
kill a particularly wicked old bull
moose which has used" withini a
radius of five miles of town for more
years than the memory of man rum
meth to the contrary, in utter defiance
of the rifles and woodcraft of the. ma
tives; and to make life miserable the
while to the fifth member of the
party.
Arthur Wilder. Andy Clair, I. D.
Rasmussen and Will Nisbett We're the
sinful quartet, and Ole Finnis, cleo
trician, and a man of the most seri-
Gus turn of mind possible, was the
fifth, the intended victim of every
job the four could put up. Now Ole,
good man and expert hunter, pos
sessed a limitless fund of good ma
ture as we'll as boundless capacity
for gold brick buying, and a service
able inclination which made him
eager to do far more than his fair
share Of driving" wood and water,
carrying, cooking and : camp work
generally, which made him a perfect
joy to his four comrades, who took
advantage Of all his failings to the
limit.
But this was the time Ole got back.
The quartet owns a perfectly APP
pointed house boat which they keep
on Pokegama lake, and from which,
and, from town, they were enabled to
cover the whole sweep Of country
the old bull aforementioned ranged
over, and from which they did their
| deer hunting between whites of the
nobler chase. Their plan, to capture
| the moose was marked by all the
L G of nd of
success-When YOU can work it.
| 1t was simply to cover the whole
ranging radius of old Bignose casual
| ~, as it were, and not so as to give
him the idea that he was the object
! of their search, locate his feeding
ground, being careful in the operation
knot to come betWiXt the wind and his
4 mobility, and once getting his din
ling apartment located to allow him to
enter it. unm olested and go to feed
ing. Then they We're to boldly fol-
! low, getting into plain view of 1.-THE
/ willy old fellow if possible-for well
they knew he feared nothing he could
see--and make dining material of
! him before he could make his exit.
] And in the execution of what came to
pass, this happened, according to
Andy.
cole" said Andy, '.is getting edu-
Gated too fast altogether. While we
We're trying the country around Jud
/ Romans place, Will killed a buck that
! would go we'll over 200, and asked Ole
! to help him lug it out to the road.
Of course Ole was glad to do it, tho
| he expressed the fear that Will wasn't
stout enough to hold up his end es-
pecially as it was an internally hard
country to carry thru. That was right
Into Wills hand, and he Immediately
stumped Ole to an endurance contest,
the first man to ask the rest before
/ reaching the road to lose.
Well, Ole took him up and they
started. The bucks fore legs were
i put over Ole's shoulders, and the hind
4 ones We're to be over Wills, but they
1 We're not, or only for a short way.
What Will really did was to balance
4 the whole deer on poor Ole by holding
up the hind feet in his hands, and the
whole way out and it was two miles
4 good, he didn't carry ten pounds
j weight at any time. When we got TIC
the road Ole was in a perfect lather
/ Will hadn't turned hair. and Ole
i couldn't understand it to save his life
"Of course the bet was off. but it sci
4 Ole. to thinking. and next day he came
back at VIII most beautifully Ole
didn't go out that day, as we were only
after deer, and he wanted to get a lot
:. of bread baked, so Will thought it g
splendid chance to put up another jot
on him when a snag jabbed a hole thru
his breaches leg. just about such as
would be made by a bullet going thru
!, his thigh. We had killed a doe JUS
before and Will splashed about a quar-
of blood over his leg and let it freeze
on, after which we lit out for the
s houseboat.
Just before we got in sight of 1T ]
took Will on my back, and began