INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



The true sportsman should form a resolu- 

 tion to secure a good trophy or nothing. It 

 is pitiable to see what rubbish some people 

 lug out of the woods heads that are wanting 

 in size and defective in fair proportions. The 

 head of the moose lacks the grace and beauty 

 of outline which characterize the elk, the only 

 large animal of this continent which can 

 compare with it in size, and so it must make 

 up in massiveness w r hat it lacks in other re- 

 spects. Whether large or small, an elk's 

 head is almost invariably beautiful and grace- 

 ful. In securing a trophy one can afford to 

 be more independent of size when an elk 

 head is the object sought, and not the head 

 of a moose. 



The attractiveness of a moose head consists 

 largely in its grotesqueness ; the size has quite 

 as much to do with that as its shape. 



If one intends to hunt in New Brunswick, 

 a great deal depends upon the kind of hunt- 

 ing desired, whether one goes early or 

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