parties that night, and we had not 

 intended starting much before mid- 

 night we had wondered how we were 

 were going to keep awake, for usually 

 the lights on' * B roadway ' ' went out by 

 nine o'clock. But the fire alarm had 

 furnished more than ample diver- 

 sion and it was after one o'clock 

 before Bert announced that the 

 canoe was ready and Nimrod and I 

 took the languid blessing of the Tevi, 

 whose interest in moose for that 

 night had given way to the necessity 

 of settling themselves in the supply 

 tent. 



A jack, as every moose hunter 

 knows, is a lantern whose light can be 

 turned on or off at will. When a 

 moose, summoned by the siren love 

 call is heard coming, it is flashed 

 directly upon him. The theory being 

 that the sudden flare of light fascin- 

 ates the big creature, he approaches to 

 investigate. He cannot, of course, 

 see the humans hiding in the black- 

 ness, and then is the moment for 

 the man and his gun. 



Of all the perfidious tricks that 

 man's superior intelligence plays on 

 the animal's superior instinct, this 



