OF THE MOOSE. 



is fatal. Miles before you have seen 

 him he smells you and immediately in- 

 creases the distance from his would-be foe. 

 When the rutting season is at its 

 height, along about the first of October, 

 and the days warm, another method of 

 moose-hunting is brought into play, 

 that of imitating the call of the cow with 

 a birch horn about eighteen inches in 

 length. There are many expert moose- 

 callers in Maine and the Canadian Prov 

 inces, though they have by no means 

 a monopoly of this accomplishment. 

 The sound is most peculiar, and can 

 only be acquired by long practice. The 

 most expert callers are those who have 

 taken lessons from nature, that is, have 

 been close to a female moose when she 

 was calling the male. At least one in 



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