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The round-horned elk, with spreading, massive antlers, the lordliest of the deer tribe throughout the world, abounded, and like the buffalo travelled in bands not only through the woods but also across the reaches of waving grass land. The deer were extraordinarily numerous, and so were bears, while wolves and panthers were plentiful.
These pillars and the earthen walls were adorned with antlers, skulls, and horns of the Rocky mountain sheep, necklaces of grizzly-bear's claws, Indian bows and arrows, rifles, short swords, and various other weapons and trophies of the chase, besides sundry articles of clothing.
Skins, bows and arrows, quivers, antlers, blankets, articles of clothing and ornament were hanging upon the walls or arranged upon the shelves. At the other end was a trough divided into compartments, in each of which was a sloping stone slab, two or three feet square, for grinding corn upon.
In the wake of the gillies we descended the Correi road into a glen all swimming with dim purple shadows. The pony minced and boggled; the stag's antlers stood out sharp on the rise against a patch of sky, looking like a skeleton tree. Then we dropped into a covert of birches and emerged on the white glen highway.
Next day he returned with his companion for meat, his antler trophy and the picture, which we present. This bull weighed approximately sixteen hundred pounds and had a spread of sixty inches across its antlers. Upon the second expedition a year later, Young bagged another moose.
Moreover, in his meetings with rival bulls it had never been his wont to depend upon a blind, irresistible charge, thereby leaving it open to an alert opponent to slip aside and rip him along the flank, but rather to fence warily for an advantage in the locking of antlers, and then bear down his foe by the fury and speed of his pushing.
The walls were adorned with trophies of the chase, such as fine antlers of moose, caribou, and great horns of mountain sheep, while several large and valuable bear and wolf-skin rugs were stretched out upon the floor. "What are you doing here, young man?" These words deliberately uttered brought Reynolds back from his contemplation of the room.
The ring of gay masquers was disordered and broken; the stag lowered his antlers in dismay; the wolf grew weaker than a lamb; the bells of the morris-dancers tinkled with tremulous affright. The Puritans had played a characteristic part in the Maypole mummeries.
Ever and anon a long cord uncoiled itself in air, and a sliding noose fell over the antlers of some unlucky deer whose slit ears marked him as trained, but whose tremendous leaps and frantic efforts to escape suggested very grave doubts as to the extent of the training.
And a lonely silence settled down about the old sycamore on the hill, solitary under the white, high-sailing moon. Horns and Antlers The young red and white bull was very angry.
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