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That autumn, when the harvest was over, the second son, Lewis, set off with some young men of the place to join a company of lumberers, who were, as is their custom, to pass the winter in the woods. It was a time of great prosperity with lumber-merchants then, and good wages could be earned in their service.
One sunny and tingling day in late October such a day as makes the blood race full red through all healthy veins a magnificent stranger was brought to the Park, and turned into the moose-range. The newcomer was a New Brunswick bull moose, captured on the Tobique during the previous spring when the snow was deep and soft, and purchased for the Park by one of the big Eastern lumber-merchants.
It was explained further that the boys had collected drift-logs for the purpose of earning money to win the Lieutenant-Governor's prize. All this so impressed three lumber-merchants in the city that they united, and sent a cheque of one hundred and fifty dollars to the Hillcrest troop.
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