HIS WOODLAND HIGHNESS, THE MOOSE 
lost to you, if you have not with you an 
able guide. No animal. large or small is 
more wary, quicker to learn that some 
hidden danger is lurking near, than this 
mighty head of the deer family, who tested 
the brains of the crafty Indian hunter who 
gave to him his name “ Mongsoa’’—the 
twig-eater—in the long ago. Let the wind 
be blown from you to the moose, no matter 
how slightly, and you may as well leave that 
particular trail—you will never bag your 
game. Remember, then, that you must 
be a woodsman. Possess or acquire if you 
can the art of woodcraft, train your eye 
and ear to the divers signs and sounds of 
the forest, learn the ways and wiles of the 
wary moose, and then, if you are a good 
shot, I wish you much luck at the end of 
the snowy trail. | 
This brings us to the fascinating sport of 
“calling,” which is practised during the 
rutting season late in September. Then 
it is that the moose leave the ponds and 
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streams, where they have reveled during 
the hot summer days, and penetrate the 
dark forest, the bulls searching for their 
mates, whose calls, long, weird and mourn- 
ful, echo and reécho through the hard- 
wood ridges and are heard for miles around. 
It is this call that the skilled woodsman 
imitates with a horn made of birch bark and 
tempts the bull, now wild with ardor and 
passion, within range of his rifle. I know 
of nothing more calculated to set the 
hunter’s nerves a-tingling and the hunter’s 
heart a-thumping than the first sight of a 
moose coming to the call. At this season 
more than any other is he an imposing 
figure, for all his vigor and strength are in 
‘their prime and many a battle is waged 
during these days when one bull challenges 
another and would steal from him the mate 
he has taken ‘‘to have and to hold.” By 
some hunters calling is looked upon as un- 
sportsmanlike, and while I venture no 
opinion I can only say that during these 

THE AUTHOR AND HIS MOOSE 
The hunters were unable to get the big animal out on the shore, so it was skinned where it lay 1 
