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Title: The house in the water: a book of animal stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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—so suddenly and silently that it seemed as if he hadtaken instant shape in the moonlight — appeareda gigantic moose, standing in the meadow, his headheld high, his nostrils sniffing arrogant inquiry.The broadly-palmated antlers crowning his mightyhead were of a spread and symmetry such as Jabehad never even imagined. Almost imperceptibly the Hunter raised his rifle— a slender shadow moving in paler shadows.The great bull, gazing about expectantly for themate who had called, stood superb and indomitable,ghost-gray in the moonlight, a mark no tyro couldmiss. A cherry branch intervened, obscuring theforesight of the Hunters rifle. The Hunter shiftedhis position furtively. His crooked finger was justabout to tighten on the trigger. At this moment,when the very night hung stiller as if with a senseof crisis, the giant bull turned, exposing his leftflank to the full glare of the moonlight. Somethinggleamed silver down his side, as if it were a shiningbelt thrown across his shoulder.
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SOMETHING GLEAMED SILVER DOWN HIS SIDE. Qbc Mbite^slasbefc Bull 149 With a sort of hiss from between his teeth Jabeshot out his long arm and knocked up the barrelof the rifle. In the same instant the Hunters fingerhad closed on the trigger. The report rang out,shattering the night; the bullet whined away highover the treetops, and the great bull, springing atone bound far back into the thickets, vanished likean hallucination. Jabe stood forth into the open, his gaunt faceworking with suppressed excitement. The Hunterfollowed, speechless for a moment between amaze-ment, wrath and disappointment. At last he foundvoice, and quite forgot his wonted courtesy. D—n you! he stammered. What do youmean by that ? What in But Jabe, suddenly calm, turned and eyed himwith a steadying gaze. Quit all that, now! he retorted crisply. Iknowed jest what I was doin! I knowed that bullwhen he were a leetle, awkward staggerer. I brunghim up on a bottle; an I loved him. He skun outfour years ago. Id most r

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