HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



three of the Maine guides can call 

 moose. With his birch horn, and seated 

 beside some lake on a quiet evening, he 

 sends back into the forest or across some 

 shallow logan the weird " woo-oo-oo, 

 woo-woo-oo " of the cow moose calling 

 the bull. If there be a bull within hear- 

 ing he will respond with a deep grunt. 

 He will then tear along through the 

 woods in the direction of the call, and 

 perhaps splash out with a great noise 

 into the shallow water where he expects 

 to find a mate answering his amorous 

 advances. 



Ordinarily the moose is a silent ani- 

 mal,, being very careful not to make 

 a noise. Old guides have said that 

 in spite of his great spread of horns 

 he will pass quietly through a thick 

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