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experience of moose calling and had only taken 

 a few lessons from Louis before successfully 

 calling up the bull, whose narrow escape from 

 death I have just narrated. 



Later on when we were looking for caribou 

 on Plateau Mountain, lower down the course of 

 the Macmillan River, my friend approached to 

 within a short distance of a bull moose, which 

 he did not want to shoot as its horns were not 

 large. Having his birch bark horn with him, 

 he thought he would try and call it up, but 

 though he kept on calling for all he was worth 

 for some time and in the most plaintive of 

 tones, the bull never paid the slightest attention 

 to his counterfeit blandishments, and showed 

 neither alarm nor curiosity at the sound. This 

 bull I imagine had passed the period of frenzy 

 which annually takes possession of his kind in 

 early autumn, and had no longer any desire for 

 female society. 



The grunting of the bull moose as it 

 approached Mr. Sheldon's call, was very 

 peculiar, and seemed to come from the thi'oat. 

 There was something disagreeable about the 



