HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



shoot as well in the woods as they can 

 at a mark there would n't be a decent 

 head left in the State. 



" Now, there is a sample of your city 

 sportsmen. That man fired nine shots 

 at those moose and he never drew blood, 

 and I could have hit the larger majority 

 of them with a brick. Yes, sir ; if I 'd 

 had a good brick I could have swatted 

 any one of those animals in the short 

 ribs." 



One of the most amusing incidents to 

 others than the participants, and a most 

 painful one to them, was the experience 

 of two young moose hunters from far off 

 Oregon, who tried their luck in the lower 

 Dead River region of Maine with a jack. 

 The night selected was one of excep- 

 tional darkness, the scene, a large bog 

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