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this sport. All I know is, that the Moose pair off at this season. 

 But what is Aclella about ; — what are you doing, peeling the bark 

 off that beech V 



" ' O, me only making cal},' said the Indian, as he twisted a 

 long piece of l)ark into a conical shape — something like a post- 

 man's tin trumpet — ' only making caU, to make noise like cow 

 Moose. When bull Moose call, then me answer.' 



" ' I fear-,' said I, ' it will be like calling spirits from the 

 vasty deep.' 



" But the fellow has again stopped, and is cutting down small 

 spruce. — ' What's in the wind now V 



" Adella, after he had finished his chopping, gathered up the 

 spruces, and choosing a piece of dry mossy ground, he stuck the 

 bushes in a circle large enough to hold the party ; then motion- 

 ing us to enter, he followed, and closing the aperture, we were 

 enclosed in a snug little encampment. 



" ' Now,' said Tom, ' what is next to be done — this seems but 

 dull music. Are we to wait here till some unfortunate Moose 

 strolls this way V 



" ' Oh, me lay out many nights and see no Moose — many cold 

 nights, and nothing in camp to eat. Very hard for poor Indian 

 to live now. White man kill all game. Some shoot um — some 

 trap um — but many, many Moose, Cariboo, Deer, and many 

 bird killed, when white man burn woods for clear land every 

 spring — sometimes bum poor Indian, too.' 



" ' But how do the woodmen trap the Moose V 



" ' Why, white man he go find track of Moose down to spring 

 — well. Moose come every night, may-be, to drink, and when 

 he sartain Moose always come, he get new rope, no tar — he 

 then go to track, and bend down good stout ash, and make him 

 fast with stake, close to track — then he fix down a httle brush 

 fence, right across track, he take rope and make running noose, 

 and fasten rope to ash, and put noose on the brush. Well, 

 Moose come — he never go out of track — he come to brush and 

 step um leg high, sometime put um right into noose. Well, he 

 find he caught, den he make great jump ; up go ash, and Moose 



