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is a cone of birch-bark, usually about sixteen inches 

 long. It is three-quarters of an inch in diameter 

 at the smaller end, and three and one half or four 

 inches at the other.'' 



The author of Hahits, Haunts^ and Anecdotes 

 of the Moose (p. 99) tells of a hunter who with his 

 guide pitched his tent "beside a giant boulder 

 on one side of which a narrow open bog stretched 

 away between wooded banks. ... As the sun 

 was nearing the western horizon the guide climbed 

 to the top of the boulder and sounded the call.'* 

 Three bulls responded. 



"The guide came down from his perch on the 

 rock, and stationed his employer and himself 

 behind a smaller boulder over which it was possible 

 to look while lying on the ground. . . . The bull 

 that responded last was, when the sun went down, 

 already quite near, and coming steadily along. 

 . . . Another call and the bull's hoofs were heard 

 beating the firm ground as he trotted up the slope 

 toward the men. In full view of the hunters, 

 and about ten yards from them, grew a bunch of 

 sapling birches. There the moose paused and 



7 Dr. Edward Breck in The Way of the Woods (N. Y., 1908), pp. 330- 



33 7» gives a good exposition of the art of calling, and a warm defense 

 of calling as a sportsmanlike system of hunting moose. Suggestions for 

 sportsmen who would learn to call their own moose are given by Douglas 

 W. Clinch in Recreation for October, 19 10. 

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