246 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



signs of abundant occupation all over that 

 land as one would expect to see of cows in a 

 10-acre pasture, that had been occupied by a 

 half a score of them a season. 



While on our way into the lot on that 

 tramp, we sat beside a brook which crossed 

 our path, eating lunch, when the crack of a 

 stick called our attention in the direction from 

 which it came, to see a bouncing big bull 

 moose oh, how I wanted those antlers 1 

 strutting up the road as indifferent, apparently, 

 to us (he must have known it was close season, 

 and therefore he was safe with honest (?) sports- 

 men) as if we were mosquitoes. 



At the time of the occurrence related here 

 there was very deep snow, covered with a 

 heavy crust, making extra snow-shoeing and 

 dog-hunting. Some of the lads, with four dogs, 

 went in from the settlement on Monday, the day 

 of my arrival there, and planned to stay till 

 Saturday, but came out on Thursday at noon 

 for teams to bring out four they had captured. 

 One of this crew was from the house at which 

 I stopped. He informed his father, an old 

 moose-hunter, whose youthful fire was sup- 

 posed years ago to have expired, that they saw 



