10 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XL 



THE MOOSE; THE BEAST OF THE WOODLAND. 



The moose of the Rocky Mountains Its habits- 

 Difficult nature of its haunts Repeated failures 

 while hunting it Watching a marsh at dawn 

 A moose in the reeds Stalking and shooting 

 him Travelling light with a pack-train A bea- 

 ver meadow Shooting a big bull at dawn The 

 moose in summer , in winter Young moose 

 Pugnacity of moose Still-hunting moose 

 Rather more easy to kill than whitetail deer At 

 times a dangerous antagonist The winter yards 

 Hunting on snow-shoes A narrow escape 

 A fatal encounter 226 



CHAPTER XII. 



HUNTING LORE. 



Game which ought not to be killed Killing black 

 bear with a knife Sports with rod and shotgun 

 Snow-shoeing and mountaineering American 

 writers on out-door life Burroughs Thoreau 

 Audubon, Coues, etc. American hunting 

 books American writers on life in the wilder- 

 ness : Parkman, Irving Cooper on pioneer life 

 American statesmen and soldiers devoted to 

 the chase Lincoln, Jackson, Israel Putnam 

 A letter from Webster on trout-fishing Clay- 

 Washington Hunting Extracts from Wash- 

 ington's diaries Washington as a fox- 

 hunter 255 



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