200 HUNTING CAMPS. 



vive with as much certainty as the echoes of a human 

 song. 



It is a strange fact that calling is not attempted in 

 Norway, for there also, though they are more silent, 

 the cows do most undoubtedly call during the rutting 

 season. The Norwegians have named the sound lokke- 

 tone, and my friend Mr. A. C. Gathorne-Hardy heard 

 a cow call repeatedly one evening when he was hunting 

 in the North Trondhjem district. 



There is one further point upon which nothing too 

 strong can, it appears to me, be written or said. All 

 over Eastern Canada, at any rate, the taxidermists and 

 furriers sell moose heads at prices ranging from 20 to 

 50. For my own fifty-two-inch head a taxidermist 

 who did not know to whom it belonged offered $200 

 "in the raw." Those who buy heads in this fashion 

 are generally rich parvenus or so-called sportsmen, who, 

 having started for the woods with the same publicity 

 which pervades their lives, do not relish returning to 

 their native towns without a trophy. What manner of 

 man it can be who is thus content to buy and to lie is a 

 difficult question. Certainly on all counts, as one of 

 my hunters said, " He don't deserve no consideration, 

 though his dollars is sound money to us." If such 

 persons must buy, one would imagine they would at 

 least only buy full-grown heads ; but as a matter of fact 

 this is not the case, for in some parts of both the States 

 and of Canada even a two-year-old bull is worth 20. 

 " Anything with a head-skin to it," as Ed remarked in 

 wholesome disgust. 



It would appear to be an extreme step if the exposure 

 for sale of sporting trophies should be forbidden by law, 

 save to museums. Yet the result would be admirable 



