520 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
of “driving deer into the lake!” The Piseco Club boast 
of having noosed a buck and taken him a prisoner to shore, 
and tied him up to a tree. But this is a feat very easy of 
accomplishment, so far as noosing the deer is concerned; 
though, I suppose, no one else would fancy the troublesome 
and useless job of getting the animal out of the water alive. 
The boatman often takes the deer by the tail, and makes 
it draw the boat; and I know of instances where the perilous 
feat of seizing a buck by the horns, and holding its head 
under water until drowned, has been performed. But such 
feats as this last are as rare as they are unwise. The most 
amusing instance I have heard, though, of these attempts 
to capture a grown animal, is furnished in that which was 
made by a party of sagacious hunters in this neighborhood, 
a winter ago, to take an old bull moose alive with ropes. 
As this leaves the feat of the Piseco Club far in the pate) 
I am tempted to give it. 
Some lucky hunter had lately succeeded in capturing a 
couple of moose alive, and had sold them to a menagerie 
company for a round sum. This set all the hunters in a 
furor to capture live moose. The yard of a famous large 
bull having been discovered by a half-breed Indian hunter, 
he was accompanied by several of the hunters about Lake 
Pleasant, on a grand turn-out to make the attempt. upon this 
fellow. The snow was very deep, and the moose was soon 
brought to a stand by the men on their snow-shoes. When 
they came up, they found he had backed himself into a 
strong position, with the roots of a torn-up tree in his rear, 
on one side, and a great shelving rock on the other. He 
was an enormous fellow, and they proceeded te mnake their 
demonstrations with most respectful caution. 
One of the party ascended the trunk of the inclining tree 
from his rear, and climbing thence on to the shelving rock 
above, from, as he supposed, a very safe elevation, succeeded 
in throwing a rope-noose over one of its spreading antlers. 
