CHAPTER I. 



HABITS AND HAUNTS. SECTIONS WHERE FOUND. 

 STILL HUNTING. CALLING. POSSIBLE EXTERMI- 

 NATION. 



n^HROUGHOUT the vast depths of 

 the northern forests, bordered by 

 the virgin growth of a trackless wilder- 

 ness, often with an imperial fringe of 

 timber-crowned hills, lives the moose. 

 He is the largest, as well as the most 

 highly prized, live game animal extant 

 to-day on the American continent. For- 

 merly, this species was very abundant 

 throughout the region of country ex- 

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