bull hears the sounds of sweetest melody ; sounds filled 

 with such plaintive, loving, caressing, lonely, forsaken, 

 "ccme-to-niy-anns " sort of cadence that he cannot resist 

 the appeals. These loving sounds, termed the "call" 

 with their ascending and descending notes are produced 

 by the guides, their instrument being a birch bark horn. 

 If the " call " be well made it will be heard by the bull 

 miles and miles away. Pricking up his ears he will start 

 on the run, thrashing through the brake, Imrking, bellow- 

 ing:, eruntiu": and in his own affectionate manner answer- 

 ing the impassioned notes of his counterfeit mistress. 

 When he reaches the edge of the wood he grows wary 

 and suspicious. He will steal up and down among the 

 bushes listening and scenting in a " she-may -be-fooling- 

 me ' ' sort of way, and sometimes it takes many nights to 

 convince him that he is the identical gentleman the lady 

 moose is "stuck on," and for whom she is so lovingly 

 calling. Alas, how many a bull -moose I,othario falls a 

 victim to his own vanity and the bewitching notes of a 

 birch bark horn ! 



Although the bull-moose is a thoroughbred Mormon, 

 having sometimes as many as five wives in his harem, 

 yet when he has one of them specially under his protec- 

 tion he will hardly leave a bird in hand for one in the 

 bush. I have myself heard him answer a " call " while 

 engaged in his protective duty, and then make a start, 

 which in this instance was for two miles ; but the loving 

 voice of the real moose called the wanderer back to his 

 protectorate duties and the family bosom. I heard and 

 saw all this. Saw him approach the water, step into it 

 and splash it with his feet, meanwhile looking cautiously 



