24 A SPORTING PARADISE 



a most determined but rather blundering way. 

 Fortunately I was in the woods, and had no 

 difficulty in avoiding his attacks by dodging 

 round the trees. Had it been in the open, 

 I might not have fared so well." 



The call of a cow, which the hunter imitates 

 through a horn or trumpet made of birch-bark, 

 is a series of grunts or groans winding up with 

 a prolonged, dismal, and rather unearthly roar, 

 which in calm weather can be distinctly heard 

 at a distance of two or three miles. One 

 peculiarity of the moose is that for a great dis- 

 tance he can go straight to the spot from whence 

 the call proceeds, even after a considerable time 

 has elapsed, and without a repetition of the 

 sound to guide him ; and hunters, after failing 

 in their call during the previous evening, have 

 known a moose come straight to the place on 

 the following morning. It is considered best 

 to call from a canoe, as many moose are lost by 

 crossing the hunter's tracks. They walk at the 

 rate of four miles an hour, even in woods so 

 thick that it is hard to understand how they 

 get their horns through. They carry their heads 

 high, noses well up, and horns thrown back. 

 The horns have been known to measure 6 ft. 



