28 A SPORTING PARADISE 



If wounded only, the second hunter fires also, 

 and perhaps the third, and the animal succumbs 

 at last, though it sometimes manages to run, 

 stumble, and scramble for miles. 



American Animals , published in 1903, contains 

 the following useful information : 



" During the rutting season, which occurs in 

 the autumn, the old bulls become savage and 

 fearless, roaming the forest on moonlight nights, 

 whistling and calling fiercely and clashing their 

 antlers against trees as a challenge. The cow 

 moose answers with a lower call, which the hunters 

 imitate through birch-bark trumpets, in order 

 to call the bull within gunshot. 



" When enticed in this manner, the bull is 

 likely to come upon the hunter with a blind 

 rush, and in the darkness of the wood the 

 hunter, whose nerves are liable to fail him at 

 a pinch, may find this sort of sport exciting, 

 but not altogether safe." 



Mr. Frederic Irland writes : 



" The camp was on the Crooked Deadwater 

 by the side of a beautiful stream at the head of a 

 great river. Just across the narrow waterway 

 one of the grandest mountains in New Brunswick 

 rises sheer and dark, a great pyramid of eternal 



