THE MOOSE 



THE favorite rendezvous, in summer or win- 

 ter range, of any other member of the deer 

 tribes may be ascertained by the observant 

 trailer, and the animal found within a given area 

 with moderate certainty, but not so our most 

 gigantic game, the moose; he is far too much 

 of a traveler. True, he too has his range, but 

 its limits are so extended that he may return to 

 the same place but once within a month or two. 

 Here to-day and elsewhere to-morrow seems to 

 be his rule. 



Yet, in spite of the moose's habits, the tracker 

 may bag him in any given locality by ascertain- 

 ing in what umbrageous thicket or on what 

 wooded hillside the moose prefers to stay during 

 his visits, that is, if the hunter does not wish to 

 run him down by sheer endurance, which would 

 take him over deep, crusted snow, cost about a 

 week's hard work, and furnish poor sport. 



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