MOOSE-CALLING. 119 



wards with our trophy, lie had undertaken to retrace his 

 steps alone to the carcase of the moose, and by degrees 

 bring out every pound of the meat on his own back. 

 And this feat he performed, though the distance was 

 fully five miles ; and the four quarters, exclusive of the 

 head, skin, and the massive neck, would weigh more 

 than five hundred pounds. We far from envied him his 

 task and the long trudge in the lonely forest. 



