that he walked He shook his head and almost back inthe shado its with similar white spots and. hadaly changed color in ch and became wd = Ly steps and sat seven, all at close shot, When Ar Gate he ce d eon ie By, had seen y whe into was 2 hole racking the acro\ buat He dug in w but 3 in nd it until ped bac ap the row and eed aio ow scooping it out every foot, The o be carefel of his shots, he thot pulling ie ove an ag the snow off the eathers—b He moved on, sil taken by the beaury, and had three 1 because the targets so small—rabbits—and he wasn them, get into she thick He slowed hie pace even more and move: stand of brambles and Crouching down and looking along the groun hard going, Every limb polled ac the bow and he had careful not to wreck the feathers on the arrows a moved. There were cl with their tracks the thick brush bits and foolbirds did not him cold. Rat moved. Deer broke limbs, bear broke limb: Aimost simulaneously he saw different 1a fim, Big tracks. Hug weit up on his neck, They wei ‘what he realy didn't want a bear in thick brush, espe memory of « bad night with a d Much large Moore. He bull with a rack so large that Brian cofen them a wide berth. When at the moose are smaller now? But P'm nealgy thoughts, the ones thats ade out of meat, b imb. Close, maybe thiryy yards, and nd Looked Jes moving, then other, like smal i Hee held his breath and crouched, watching. He could just the legs, and ashe watched to the left bit, hesia sd then turned left omach tightened and he stood and ition. The brush was 190 thick for rus No. There our four fe leaned d sh, thea to the nt, he might De al Je moved t0 the Somewhere 10 is i, and ic was th sh cracked directly in front c nothin ‘Another bird flew pas. Be aged, waiting, and n0W ping, its hooves shussh-sh breaking branch and thw, his brain registered, a large cow moose. No ant. dripping foom the side of her mouth. xt him bue-not secing him, oat least E he bowstin . ater in hi so ie all he cred bat when he did i everyting happene : credibly slowiy— all seemed oe 2 ° 1 saw the feat seemed blur, and He would never kn ‘was hurt. His yet he could and he rolled, sill holding the K roa kneeling position. He as she bic him again, (One image. She th st just below th head hit his fore head. Brian saw one flash of white light, a bi