Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — The Swift-Footed Moose. [ARTICLE]

The Swift-Footed Moose.

To one who knows nothing of big game, it is amazing to see how fast a moose can tud, his stride being much longer than that of a horse. A light freight train was running on the Northern Pacific, in the upper part of Minnesota, when the engineer saw a big moose standing on the track, and as scon as the animal saw the engine he took to his heels down the trade. There was a perfectly straight run for four miles, and the engineer determined to test the speed of the moose, of which he had frequently heard. At first the gait of the moose was a sort of trot, and even when the engine gained speed ihe animal did not seem to exert itself. Faster and faster sped the engine, but still the moose trotted ahead, and all the power of steam could not prevail over this monarch of the forest. At last, after covering four miles, and turning a curve, they came upou a gang of section hands, and the victorious moose leaped the track, and was lost to view in the forest.