MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING 



AND OTHER SKETCHES OF SPORT 



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CHAPTER I. 



MOOSE-CALLING IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



SOUTH- WESTEEN Nova Scotia, particularly the 

 counties of Queen and Shelburne, has always 

 been noted for its big game moose, cariboo, 

 and bear being abundant. 



One Monday morning in September, 1870, 

 a party of three Jack, Bob, and myself (Tom) 

 started for the town of Liverpool, Queen Co., 

 on a week's moose -calling expedition, in the 

 neighbourhood of the Broad River Lakes, the 

 source of the fine fishing stream of that name. 

 With a team loaded with all the necessaries, 

 we drove out on the Shelburne road nine 

 miles, then taking a mill-and-log road extend- 

 ing back into the timber lands, we followed 



