CALLING THE MOOSE 



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Columbia (among the best moose hunters in 

 America), or pounding the willows with a dry- 

 shoulder-blade of the animal, by the Liard River 

 Indians,'* according to Stone, will often serve 

 to call a bull.^ These sounds are intended to 

 give a listening bull the impression that a fight 

 is in progress, and he is eager to participate in the 

 contest, in the hope of winning the prize for which 

 the others are contending. But these seem to be 

 chiefly the expedients of western Indians, and are 

 rarely practiced by white hunters, or by the Indian 

 hunters of the east. 



9 The Deer Family^ p. 310. 



