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Moose -Hunting. 



A MOOSE-YARD. 



that then the tines and palmation are perfect; and further, that the 

 duration of life is probably about twenty years. 



There are three modes of hunting the moose, termed still hunting, 

 fire hunting, and calling. There was another mode, which, I am 

 happy to say, legislation has in a great measure suppressed. I refer 

 to the wholesale slaughter of the unfortunate animals when the deep- 

 lying snows of a protracted winter had imprisoned them in their 

 yards and rendered them only a too easy prey to the unprincipled 

 butchers who slew them for the sake of their skins. 



To be successful in still hunting, or creeping upon the moose, 

 necessitates the aid of a skillful Indian guide. Very few, if any, white 

 men ever attain the marvelous precision with which an Indian, to 

 whom the pathless forest is an open book which he reads as he runs, 

 will track to its death an animal so exceedingly sensitive to the 

 approach of man. This gift, or instinct, seems born with the Indian, 

 and is practiced from his early childhood. It is not uncommon to 



