THE LAUEENTIDES PARK 



take pains to keep out of your way. Man 

 may not shoot them, and only unpro- 

 tected calves have anything to dread 

 from the wolves, so that they are in the 

 happy position of having no enemies. 

 Whatever the fate of the caribou may 

 be, it seems probable that in a few years' 

 time there will be as good moose-shoot- 

 ing here as in any part of New Bruns- 

 wick, nor is there the slightest fear that, 

 under reasonable exercise, it will ever 

 be exhausted. This branch of sport is 

 new to the country, and the art of call- 

 ing has not been developed, so that 

 tedious watching and hard stalking are 

 the only means of securing a head. No 

 horns have been brought out yet which 

 rival the New Brunswick antlers, much 

 less those of the Alaskan alces gigas. 

 Anything over fifty-five inches is an un- 

 usually good panache for Quebec, that 

 is to say, ten inches less than a fine New 

 Brunswick head, and twenty inches less 

 than the prodigious antlers of the West. 



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