OF THE MOOSE. 



worst places possible for him to find, 

 which adds to one's discomfort and les- 

 sens one's chances of a shot. 



Nature has bestowed upon him meth- 

 ods of passing through underbrush or 

 blow-downs silently where a man in 

 following makes a noise ten times as 

 loud. The very silence of the forest is 

 noisy. The wind whistling through the 

 tree-tops, the bushes grating against one 

 another, both contribute to make noise. 



Those of my readers who have heard 

 the low, weird grunt of the bull moose, 

 and have listened to the music of the 

 crashing of the underbrush as he forces 

 his way through in answer to the melan- 

 choly and drawn-out| bellow of the cow, 

 will understand full well when I say 

 that it cannot be described, but must be 



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