50 AMERICAN GAME. 
sultans meet in the presence of a single sultana, woe to 
the weaker, for he must neéds go to the wall after a 
desperate conflict, fought out, as if by the knights of 
old, in the presence of the queen of love if not of beauty, 
whose caresses are to be the reward of the victor. 
Of this propensity foresters take advantage in the sea- 
son, by imitating the call of the cow Moose, which is 
easily done by blowing a peculiar note through a com- 
mon cows-horn, the end of which is partially immersed 
in water, or on a trumpet made of birch or alder bark 
for this very purpose by the Indians, who are great 
adepts at its use, and rarely fail to extract a reply from 
the bulls, and ultimately to lure him up within a few 
feet of the circle of hemlock or cedar-boughs among 
which they await his coming full of amorous fury and 
proud defiance, with the ready gun, which soon levels 
his branched honors in the dust. 
It not unfrequently happens that two bull Moose will 
be attracted by the same call, will bellow their responses 
to it through the echoing ravines and gorges, and will 
finally tear down through the rent and crashing under- 
wood, and meeting with a roar of defiance do battle at 
outrance in the presence of the ambushed enemy, who 
watches for his advantage at every instant of the fray, 
and rarely fails to bring down both of the competitors 
for an imaginary fair one, by a cowardly and ignoble 
triumph. And a magnificent spectacle it must be to 
witness, alone and unassisted in the depths of the pri- 
