HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



tending from the wilds of Northern 

 Maine westward through the wilder- 

 ness bordering on the Great Lakes and 

 far beyond; but great havoc has been 

 wrought, especially during the past 

 twenty-five years, in the supply of this 

 variety of game. 



Comparatively few are killed annually 

 in the United States, and those mostly 

 within the limits of Northern Maine and 

 the States of the far Northwest, where 

 the pernicious activity of the professional 

 hunters and self-styled sportsmen, who 

 kill the large beasts during the prev- 

 alance of deep snows, will, if not checked, 

 bring the moose into the list of extinct 

 species of American game before the 

 close of another decade. 



No animal is so persistently hunted, 



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