Tully Hammill:
>I had stepped on a sleeping moose. How it could have remained
>asleep as I thrashed around I don't know. Moosie rushed off
>at high speed. Luckily it had no horns. Otherwise, ouch!

Oh...mine woke up before I stepped on it (actually, as it bedded
just next to the trail I probably wouldn't've). At least it
had cute little, mid-August, velvet-covered, antlerettes!

He slunk away slowly, undoubtably ashamed at the contrast between
his huge, muscular bulk and those teensy, little, secondary sexual
thingies on his head.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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