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parties that night, and we had not 

 intended starting much before mid- 

 night we had wondered how we were 

 were going to keep awake, for usually 

 the lights on"Broadway "went out by 

 nine o'clock. But the fire alarm had 

 furnished more than ample diver- 

 sion and it was after one o'clock 

 before Bert announced that the 

 canoe was ready and Nimrod and I 

 took the languid blessing of the Tevi, 

 whose interest in moose for that 

 night had given way to the necessity 

 of settling themselves in the supply 

 tent. 



A jack, as every moose hunter 

 knows, is a lantern whose light can be 

 turned on or off at will. When a 

 moose, summoned by the siren love 

 call is heard coming, it is flashed 

 directly upon him. The theory being 

 that the sudden flare of light fascin- 

 ates the big creature, he approaches to 

 investigate. He cannot, of course, 

 see the humans hiding in the black- 

 ness, and then is the moment for 

 the man and his gun. 



Of all the perfidious tricks that 

 man's superior intelligence plays on 

 the animal's superior instinct, this 



