CHAPTER VII. 



MOOSE HUNTING AND MOOSE CALLING IN CANADA. 



IN June, 1906, I made plans to spend the following 

 October in the Canadian woods and to attempt to 

 secure that much-coveted trophy of American big game 

 a good moose. I was the more eager to hunt the 

 greatest of deer, because, in the first place, I had long 

 desired to shoot a moose, and, in the second, as I have 

 narrated, I had passed the hunting season of the previous 

 year in pursuit of his congener in Europe, and it 

 certainly adds an immense attraction to any form of 

 sport, if one has had experience of it under different 

 conditions and in another environment. 



On the llth of October I landed at Quebec, and having 

 been given permission by Mr. W. W. Price, a member 

 of the well-known Canadian family, to hunt moose in 

 his large preserves on the south side of the St. Lawrence, 

 I lost no time. Thanks to the kind offices of my friend 

 Mr. Frank W. Ross, arrangements were already made 

 and waiting for my arrival ; thus I was enabled to set out 

 on the following day. As a first step my hunter, Ed 

 Atkins, and I travelled to Rimouski, where we slept the 

 night, and in the morning started in a buck-board on a 

 thirty-mile drive, the last stages of which lay through 

 the bush. This was my first view of the Canadian 

 forests, and I had the good fortune to see them at the 

 most beautiful time of the year, when the foliage of the 



