The Holbrook news., 1918-01-18
CHARGED BY MOOSE
Colonel Roosevelt Relates EScit-
 ing Episode of Hunting Trip.
Forced in seIf-Defense to Kill Animal Which TraiIed and Attacked
 Party in Woods.

In GA Book-Lover's Holiday in the Open," Col. Theodore Roosevelt takes his readers into the less familiar cor ners of both North and South Amer lea. Many of hiSsexperiences were ex- citing, but perhaps the most thrilling was his encounter with a bull moose when on a recent hunting trip in Quebec.
 'When we were half mile from the landing" he says, i've saw a big bull moose on the edge of the shore ahead of us. He looked bigger than the one l had shot that morning, and his ant lers were rather more pa1mated. We padded up to within a hundred yards of him, laughing and talking, and re- marking how eager we should have been if we had not already got our moose.
 At first he did not seem to notice us. Then he looked at us, but paid no fur ther heed. We were surprised. but padded on past him; we supposed that he did not realize what We were. But another hundred yards put us to wind ward. Instead of turning into the for est when he got our wind, the moose merely bristled up the hair on his withers, shook his head and walked along the shore after us. Plainly he meant mischief. So we turned the canoe round and padded on our back track. But the moose promptly turned and followed us along the shore. We yelled at him, and Odilon struck the canoe with his paddle, but with no eff feet.
 'For more than an hour he thus kept us from the shore, running to meet us wherever we tried to go. The after noon was waning, and a cold wind be- gan to blow. He was not pleasant looking beast to meet in the woods in the dusk. We were at our wits ends to know what to do. At last he turned. shook his head and, with a flourish of his heels, gallOped-not trotted-fOr 50 yards up along the little river that paralleled the portage trail. l called Arthur's attention to that, as he had been telling me that big bull never galloped. Then the moose disappeared at trOt around the bend. We waited a few minutes, cautiously landed and started along the trail, watching to see if the bull were lying in walt for us- Arthur told me that if be now att tackled us must shoot him at once or he would kill someone.
 "A couple of hundred yards on, the trail led within a few yards of the It. tie river. As we reached that point a l. posite bank caused us to wheel; and the great bull came headlong for us. Arthur called to me to shoot. With a last hope of frightening him l fired over his head, without the slightest effect At slashfng trOt he eros sd the river, shaking his head, with his ears laid back and the hair on his withers bristling.
 "'Tirez, m'sieu, tirez; vite, viteF called Arthur, and when the bull was not 30 feet away put a bullet into his chest, in the sticking point. II was a mortal wound, and stopped him short.
 T was sorry to have to kill him, but there was no alternative. As 1t was. only stopped him in the nick of time, and had I not shot straight at least one of us would have paid forfeit with his life. Even in Africa have never known anything except a rogue elephant or buffalo, or an occasional rhinoceros, to attack so viciously or with such reconciliation when he was neither wounded nor threatened-"- Youths Companion.