summer cruise in the new Minnesota State Forest. 

 We saw eleven of them that day, and 'during our 

 stay at his cabin of five days, we saw thirty-six moose 

 and thirty-five deer. 



A moose at a distance looks like a large rock or a 

 patch of shadow. If the light on the dark patch var- 

 ies, the patch is a live moose. That is the way I 

 learned to recognize a moose at a distance of a mile 

 or two. "We put in a hard day of hunting moose with 

 a camera. The day was warm and the flies hungry, 

 so, the moose resorted to the lakes to feed on the 

 vegetation that grows on the bottom and rid them- 

 selves of the flies. 



When the antlered head of a big bull was under 

 water, we paddled as hard as we could. When the 

 big head came up, and the giant creature shook the 

 water out of his big lk muley" ears, so that we could 

 hear them flap a long ways off, we froze to our 

 seats. We let him chew his weeds in peace, we let 

 him look us over and were glad that he took canoe 

 and oarsmen for driftwood. By that simple method 

 we came close enough for several good pictures. Moose 

 and deer depend far more on their noses and ears 

 than on their eyes. Only against the wind can they 

 be closely approached. 



The growth of the great flat antlers of the bull 

 moose produced and shed every year, seems a very 

 wasteful process. If you would like to know how 

 much a pair of them weigh, you should carry them on 

 yMir back ten miles. At the end of the trip you w r ould 

 say they weighed a hundred pounds, which is how- 

 ever, about sixty pounds from the truth. It no doubt 



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