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Say! don't you boys think that I've done her grunt pretty well sometimes?" "That you have," was the general response. "We couldn't tell any difference between your noise and the real thing." "But she wasn't a patch on the bull-moose in appearance," lamented Dol. "No more she was, boy. Most female forest creatures ain't so good-looking as the males!
And Basil was likely to meet with his, for on parting the leaves, and looking cautiously through, he saw that he had arrived at the right spot. Within fifty yards of him he saw the high shoulders of the bull-moose and his great flat antlers towering over the tops of the willows, among the leaves of which the snout of the animal was buried.
It was the bull-moose there was no mistaking him for any other creature. Near him other forms three of them were visible: these were of smaller stature, and I could see that they were hornless. They were the cow and calves; and the herd was made up, as my companion had foretold, of these four individuals.
Dol thought it came from a feathered creature; his more experienced companion guessed that the guide's lips gave it as a signal that he was coming, but that he didn't want to draw the moose's attention in his direction just yet. Such a quarter of an hour followed! With the fresh spurt of anger the bull-moose became more savage than ever.
At the same time a blustering, mighty wind-gust half swept the four climbers from their feet. A great flash of globe lightning cut the air like a dazzling fire-ball. "We'll have to quit our trailing, and scoot for shelter, I'm thinking!" exclaimed Cyrus. "Good land, I should say so!" agreed the guide. "The bull-moose likes thunder.
He had grown so accustomed to counting all the furry wild folk as his prey that he never thought of them as possible adversaries, unless it might chance to be some such exception as a bull-moose in rutting season. A rifle, therefore, when he was not after skins, seemed to him a useless burden; and he was carrying, moreover, a pack of camp supplies on his broad back.
It was making for the trees exactly what Malbrouck desired. He deftly threw the rope round a sapling, but not too taut, lest the moose's horns should be injured. The plucky animal now turned on him. He sprang behind a tree, and at that instant he heard the thud of hoofs behind him. He turned to see a huge bull-moose bounding towards him. He was between two fires, and quite unarmed.
Adrian was so excited he could not stand still. His eyes gleamed, his hands clenched, and his whole appearance was changed. Greatly for the worse, the girl thought, regarding him with disgust. "Finish him? That's King Madoc, Pierre's trained bull-moose. You'd be finished yourself, I fear, if you harmed that splendid creature.
"Well, do you know," she said demurely, "I don't think I'll take a hand in this game, chiefly because " she paused. "Yes: chiefly because " "Because you'll get your own way without help. You get everything you want," she added with a little savage comment. A flood of feeling came into his eyes, his head jerked like that of a bull-moose. "No, I don't get everything I want.
All was calm, beautiful, and remote from the world of men and passion. It was, indeed, a night to touch the soul, and yet, I think, none of us heeded these things. A bull-moose might almost have thrust his great head over our shoulders and have escaped unnoticed. The death of Jake the Swede, with its sinister setting, was the real presence that held the centre of the stage and compelled attention.
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