lO CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XL 



THE MOOSE; THE BEAST OF THE WOODLAND. 



The moose of the Rocky Mountains — Its habits — 

 Difficult nature of its haunts — Repeated failures 

 while hunting it — Watching a marsh at dawn— 

 A moose in the reeds — Stalking and shooting 

 him — Travelling light with a pack-train — A bea- 

 ver meadow — Shooting a big bull at dawn — The 

 moose in summer , in winter — Young moose- 

 Pugnacity of moose — Still-hunting moose— 

 Rather more easy to kill than whitetail deer — At 

 times a dangerous antagonist — The winter yards 

 —Hunting on snow-shoes — A narrow escape — 

 A fatal encounter 226 



CHAPTER XII. 



HUNTING LORE. 



Game which ought not to be killed — Killing black 

 bear with a knife — Sports with rod and shotgun 

 — Snow-shoeing and mountaineering — American 

 writers on out-door life — Burroughs — Thoreau 

 —Audubon, Coues, etc. — American hunting 

 books — American writers on life in the wilder- 

 ness : Parkman, Irving — Cooper on pioneer life 

 — American statesmen and soldiers devoted to 

 the chase — Lincoln, Jackson, Israel Putnam — 

 A letter from Webster on trout-fishing — Clay — 

 Washington — Hunting Extracts from Wash- 

 ington's diaries — Washington as a fox- 

 hunter 255 



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