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Moose - Hunting. 



FIRE HUNTING. 



If the sportsman combines the tastes of a naturalist with his love of 

 out-door life, his camping- out holiday will prove all the more enjoy- 

 able. One often hears the remark, " How strange it is that animals, 

 birds, life of any kind, is so seldom met with in an American forest ! " 

 My own experience, and I doubt not that of many other lovers of 

 nature, has been very different, for whatever your name may be, you 

 will seldom gain the confines of the forest without being greeted as 

 "Sweet Willie," by ki-ha-neas, the smaller red- polled linnet, and you 

 will not have traveled far before the little chickadee, hanging head 

 down as is his wont, will welcome you to the forest. The Indian 

 name for little black-cap, kich-e-ge-gelas, is surprisingly like his note 

 of greeting. And before you fairly get your lunch out, that ubiqui- 



