i82 Hunting Big Game 



moose and caribou and wolves in great quan- 

 tities all night. The previous day we had 

 seen plentiful fresh signs of moose — brush 

 broken oiF in many places, showing that the 

 bulls were rubbing the velvet from their ant- 

 lers and beginning to run. The guide Frank 

 and the nimrod started for a little swamp, 

 covered with grass, hoping to get a shot at a 

 moose; Tenderfoot and the other guide going 

 meanwhile to the next lake to fish for salmon- 

 trout. After waiting for three or four hours 

 without seeing moose, although the fresh signs 

 were very plentiful, we returned to camp. On 

 the way back the nimrod trolled from the 

 canoe, and caught a fine salmon-trout. 



On reaching camp the guide made a birch- 

 bark horn, with which to call moose; when he 

 had finished he thought he would try it, and 

 at the first call he got an answer from a bull 

 moose. Then there was a race for the gun 

 and canoe and the guide succeeded in calling 

 him within one hundred yards, and we coula 

 hear the underbrush crack; but he must have 

 got a whiff of us, as the wind was not favor- 

 able, and this was the last we heard of him. 



