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...e in that time? Young Philip Galvez and his friend Marcus Holmes found out for themselves when they decided to discover why there was a giant stuffed moose in a house down the road. Jimmyland The settlers were dispatched to a distant planet to build a colony to house the future of mankind. They had everything they needed, except a backup plan in case things went horri...

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...Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field....

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... in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms that resemble the Bull Moose platform of 1912 and then vanishes....

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...poiled… all the cougars and wolves and foxes and marmots and deer and elk and moose and thousands of smaller creatures killed off and for what? Why...

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...er how remotely eatable, had escaped them. They had eaten a pair of Perrault’s moose hide moccasins, chunks out of the leather traces, and even two fe... ...s in clean dust and nuggets, and they worked every day. The gold was sacked in moose hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood... ...attering in mortal fear to the tree tops. As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the win... ... came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek. A band of twenty moose had crossed over from the land of streams and timber, and chief a... ...y at his heels, satisfied with the way the game was played, lying down when the moose stood still, attacking him fiercely when he strove to eat or drink... ...s coming over the face of things. He could feel a new stir in the land. As the moose were coming into the land, other kinds of life were coming in. Fo... ...e business in hand. At last, at the end of the fourth day, he pulled the great moose down. For a day and a night he remained by the kill, eating and s... ...eir living meat, as the Yeehats were hunting it, on the flanks of the migrating moose, the wolf pack had at last crossed over from the land of streams ... ...the prints of any wolf. Each fall, when the Yeehats follow the movement of the moose, there is a certain valley which they never enter. And women ther...

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...have heard that the French Indi- ans had come into these hills to hunt the moose, and we are getting within scent of their camp. Why should they not? ... ... soul.” “Where is the knave?” bluntly interrupted the scout. “He hunts the moose to-day, with his young men; and to- morrow, as I hear, they pass furt... ...of them spoke. “W elcome!” one at length uttered; “has my friend found the moose?” “The young men stagger under their burdens,” returned Magua. “Let ‘... ...g.” “The Hurons are boasters,” said Uncas, scornfully; “their ‘totem’ is a moose, and they run like snails. The Delawares are children of the tortoise... ...ing of the hog (but none of the fox), and arms longer than the legs of the moose. With his tongue he stops the ears of the Indians; his heart teaches ...

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... Bend, Flint, Dayton, Tulsa, Wichita, Fort Worth, Winona, Erie, Fargo, and Moose Jaw.) “Speaknubout prices,” the man in the velour hat ob- served, fin... ...ho belongs to the Boosters or the Rotarians or the Kiwanis, to the Elks or Moose or Red Men or Knights of Columbus or any one of a score of organiza- ... ...-clubs; to the Rotarians, the Kiwanis, or the Boosters; to the Oddfellows, Moose, Masons, Red Men, Woodmen, Owls, Eagles, Maccabees, Knights of Pythia...

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...ted from Torpenhow’s letterpress in the Nungapunga Book. ‘How do they call moose in Canada, Nilghai?’ The man laughed. Singing was his one polite acco...

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...a must needs find out what the light in the shrine meant, and drop out her moose-like nose into Purun Bhagat’s lap, coming and going with the shadows ...

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...-church yard with a stump fence, the old gray roots sticking all ways like moose-antlers. The bier, set over the grave, it being the last dug, was of ...

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...d warrior hunt- 122 Moby Dick ers, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main. But no... ...e shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; “A ye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a ...

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...ood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main. But no... ...he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart stricken moose; “Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a p...

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... divers other quad- rupeds, among which was sometimes included the elk, or moose, helped to complete the sum of the natural supplies on which all the ...

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...were going to start by noon, with two canoes, to go up to Chesuncook to hunt moose, — to be gone a month. “Well, Louis, suppose you get to the Point [... ...or all, — some pork, — some bread, — and so pay.” He said, “Me sure get some moose”; and when I asked if he thought Pomola would let us go up, he answ... ...se tangled labyrinth of living, fallen, and decaying trees only the deer and moose, the bear and wolf, can easily penetrate. More perfect specimens th... ...m. We noticed flattened places in the grass on either side, where, he said, a moose had laid down the night before, adding, that there were thousands i... ...raid to hear the echoes of his voice there. We remembered also that possibly moose were silently watching us from the distant coves, or some surly bea... ... and then rambled along the sandy shore in the moon light, hoping to meet a moose, come down to drink, or else a wolf. The little rill tinkled the lo... ... a mountain in that direction. The Joe Merry Lakes, which lay between us and Moosehead, on the west, were recently, if they are not still, “surrounded... ...s of this mode of advertising, that so, possibly, even the bears and wolves, moose, deer, otter, and beaver, not to mention the Indian, may learn wher... ...onsult about our Ktaadn 31 further course, we noticed the recent track of a moose, a large, roundish hole, in the soft wet ground, evincing the great...

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... thou wert void of greatness, Having neither strength nor beauty, When the moose was trampling on thee, When the roebuck trod upon thee, 98 The Kalev... ...den, Therefore, woo the sweet faced flower, When thou bringest me the wild moose From the Hisi fields and forests.” Then the artful Lemminkainen Deftl... ...y snow shoes, Smooth them well and make them hardy, That in Tapio the wild moose, Roaming through the Hisi forests, I may catch and bring to Louhi, As... ...ecision: “Lemminkainen, reckless minstrel, Thou wilt hunt in vain the wild moose, Thou wilt catch but pain and torture, In the Hisi fens and forests.”... ...snow shoes, Quickly work and make them ready; Go I will and catch the blue moose Where in Tapio it browses, In the Hisi woods and snow fields.” Then L... ...easures, Juntas listened to their echoes; Straightway Hisi called the wild moose, Juutas fashioned soon a reindeer, And the head was made of punk wood... ...uscles, Fair and fleet, the magic reindeer. Juutas thus instructs the wild moose, These the words of wicked Hisi: Flee away, thou moose of Juutas, Fle... ...e Kalevala Lemminkainen be exhausted.” Thereupon the Hisi reindeer, Juutas moose with branching antlers, Fleetly ran through fen and forest, Over Lapl... ...minkainen, Followed fast, and followed faster, Hastened on behind the wild moose, Over swamps and through the woodlands, Over snow fields vast and pat...

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...s, and who, as every one knew, had been living the two months past on straight moose meat. “Hain’t fergot thehooch we uns made on the Tanana, hev yeh?... ...y had the coffee pot on To the Man on Trail 5 and was busily frying bacon and moose meat. The stranger significantly tapped his revolvers. “When ’d ye... ... — the crawl The White Silence 17 ing into camp, if it can, in the hope of a moose being killed. Already penitent for his angry action, but too stub... ...rading, you know there is n’t her equal. D’ ye recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping... ...” — “Only one day. We can shave it through on the grub, and might knock over a moose.” “No, — all right; one day, but not a minute more. And Kid, don’... ...me between. And now it must be severed by his own hand. Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and n... ...es toward each other and nearly to the ground, making them fast with thongs of moose hide. Then he beat the dogs into submission and harnessed them t... .... It was the same old crowd upon the streets. Strange, they did not notice his moosehide moccasins and tattered German socks! He would take a cab. And... ...ot on the box. The bootblack looked curiously up at him, and he remembered his moosehide moccasins and went away hastily. Hark! The wind vane must be ...

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...ing eyes drew in even closer than before. “I wisht they’d spring up a bunch of moose or somethin’, an’ go away an’ leave us alone,” Bill said. Henry g... ...olves,” Bill cogitated aloud. “I ought to know. I shot it out of the pack in a moose pasture over on Little Stick. An’ Ol’ Villan cried like a baby. H... ... to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him. He came out of a... ... in a lower lying country before their quest was rewarded. Then they came upon moose. It was a big bull they first found. Here was meat and life, and i... ...d more cautiously, cutting out heavy cows or crippled old bulls from the small moose herds they ran across. There came a day, in this land of plenty, ... ...art, he proceeded confidently on his way. Such was his confi dence, that when a moose bird impudently hopped up to him, he reached out at it with a pla... ...ose that made him cower down and ki yi. The noise he made was too much for the moose bird, who sought safety in flight. But the cub was learning. His m... ...tter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine. While the sight of a moose bird almost invariably put him into the wildest of rages; for he ... ...ved from the first of that ilk he encountered. But there were times when even a moose bird failed to affect him, and those were times when he felt hims...

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...fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou. Next rolls Thomaston lime, a prime lot, which will get ... ...tervals, from the jingle of sleigh bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down w... ...r skins for rum in Concord village; who told him, even, that he had seen a moose there. Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne nhe pronounced it...

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...d fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou. Next rolls Thomaston lime, a prime lot, which will ge... ... intervals, from the jingle of sleigh bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down... ...eir skins for rum in Concord village; who told him, even, that he had seen a moose there. Nutting had a famous fox hound named Burgoyne, — he pronounc...

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...haste in Martaban. Here’s my wisdom for your use, as I learned it when the moose And the reindeer roared where Paris roars to-night: — There are nine...

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...Sandwich and of Squam, slumbering like tumuli of Titans, with the peaks of Moosehillock, the Hay stack, and Kearsarge reflected in its waters; where ... ... whereon The all seeing sun for ages hath not shone, Where feeds the moose, and walks the surly bear, And up the tall mast runs the woodpecke... ...alternate resolution and fear, are making a hasty meal of parched corn and moose meat, while their canoe glides under these pine roots whose stumps a...

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... Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky. The sharp hoof’d moose of the north, the cat on the house sill, the chickadee, the prairie... ...er, and the hoarse bellow of the elk, In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great tro... ...tinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest, In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner’d by hunters, rising desperately on his hin...