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shoulder, and try not to merit my Indian’s reproof to me when 
a bullet went six inches too high—‘ All same again, you allus 
look at the horns instead of the bull, cap.’ 
Moose calling has almost every attribute of true sport. To 
succeed, a man must know the habits of his quarry and have 
admirable opportunities for studying them ; if he ‘calls’ him- 
self, he must have an excellent ear and be a perfect mimic, 
and for him the morning and the evening, moonlight and the 
grey of dawn, lend their beauty to the beauty of the silent 
woods. But for some men, ‘calling’ hardly gives the man 
enough to do. To these men I recommend still hunting over 
the hardwood hills about the time of the first snowfall, when 
there is enough snow to track in, with a good French Canadian 
half-breed as a guide. To my mind there is hardly any better 
sport on earth than to follow the great tracks through the new- 
fallen snow, through woods beautiful beyond all description 
with the beauty of a Canadian winter, over hardwood hills, and 
through patches of brulé, and then down into a bed of frozen 
willows, silvered by the frost, and jewelled by the sun, through 
swamps of tea-bush off which the frost falls in showers of crisp 
scales, until late in the afternoon you run up to your beast in 
a heavy grove of balsam, looking intensely black against the 
blinding purity of the snow. But for this sport you want young 
limbs and strong ones, and the wind and endurance of a tem- 
perate and clean liver. You want these for any sport worth 
the name. 
There is yet another way of hunting moose, when the snows 
are down and the crust upon them is strong enough to bear a 
man on snow-shoes, but not strong enough to carry the moose. 
__ Of course, all the odds are against the animal, but still this is 
_ exciting sport, making tremendous demands upon the man’s 
- endurance ; and it is moreover when pursued in this way that 
_ the moose is said to turn ‘ ugly’ and sometimes hunt the hunter. 
| Provided that a man only kills old bulls, and not too many of 
| them, I see no objection to this form of pursuit. The percentage 
| of men who canrun to within shooting distance of a bull moose 
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