CHAPTER VII 



Jacking and Moose-calling 



THERE is a strange fascination to most wild 

 animals in the gleam of firelight, especially 

 at night. Nearly all of them fear the bright 

 mysterious something, that leaps and dances, 

 flickers and fades so magically. 



Most wild creatures are of two minds, half 

 fearful and half fascinated, and love to linger 

 on the outskirts of the light, where they can 

 see and not be seen. 



Probably the instinctive fear of fire that 

 wild animals have springs from their sad ex- 

 periences with forest fires. It is no wonder 

 that they fear this power which they cannot 

 understand, this demon that will, in a few 

 fearful hours, lay waste their deep fastnesses, 

 turning cool sweet shade into an inferno, and 

 the sweet air into a stifling, choking, stran- 

 gling nightmare, from which so many of them 



