CHAPTER VII. 



MOOSE-HUNTING AND MOOSE-CALLING IN CANADA. 



IN June, 1906, 1 made plans to spend the following October 

 in the Canadian woods and to attempt to secure that 

 much-coveted trophy of American big game a good moose. 

 I was the more eager to hunt the greatest of deer, because, 

 in the first place, I had long desired to shoot a moose, and, 

 in the second, as I have narrated, I had passed the hunting- 

 season of the previous year in pursuit of his congener in 

 Europe, and it certainly adds an immense attraction to any 

 form of sport, if one has had experience of it under different 

 conditions and in another environment. 



On the nth of October I landed at Quebec, and having 

 been given permission by Mr. W. W. Price, a member of the 

 well-known Canadian family, to hunt moose in his large 

 preserves on the south side of the St. Lawrence, I lost no 

 time. Thanks to the kind offices of my friend Mr. Frank W. 

 Ross, arrangements were already made and waiting for my 

 arrival ; thus I was enabled to set out on the following day. 

 As a first step my hunter, Ed Atkins, and I travelled to 

 Rimouski, where we slept the night, and in the morning 

 started in a buck-board on a thirty-mile drive, the last 

 stages of which lay through the bush. This was my first 

 view of the Canadian forests, and I had the good fortune to 

 see them at the most beautiful time of the year, when the 

 foliage of the hardwood had not yet all fallen and each maple 

 displayed its full glory of crimson leaves. 



