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CONCERNING MOOSE CALLING 

 AND CANADIAN FORESTS AND FISHING 



We will now leave the South Seas and try to 

 follow George Kingsley into the other most remark- 

 able reg-ion he was privileged to know, the forest 

 lands of Canada, whither he went on several occasions 

 after moose and grizzly bear, and hunting and fishing 

 of all kinds, with that ardent fellow-sportsman, the 

 Earl of Dunraven. Here we have a bit of description 

 of the sort of forest where moose are to be found, 

 where ' the ground is carpeted in such a manner as 

 to throw the delicately designed carpets of the East 

 into almost blatant vulgarity. A little farther on 

 groups of stunted pines, decked with greenish gray 

 pendant Spanish moss, waving weirdly in the even- 

 ing breeze, backed by still loftier conifers, inter- 

 spersed with the white skeletons of dead forest 

 monarchs, victims of the bush fires, standing out 

 against the gold and crimson and pink and purple of 

 the evening sky with a sharpness and a clearness 

 unknown in more southern climes. Press through 



