MISCELLANEOUS HUNTING METHODS 141 



Among the older woodsmen of today are many 

 who remember when such midwinter moose killing 

 by white men, for the logging camps and frontier 

 settlements, was very common. Nathan Moore, 

 a famous character of the Maine woods a genera- 

 tion ago, and a generation earlier still, for that 

 matter, kept a record of the moose he had killed in 

 seventy years of active woods life. At his death 

 in 1906, at the age of eighty-eight years, his score 

 stood at 276 moose. Fifty years ago the number 

 of moose which one was permitted to kill in Maine 

 was no more limited than the number of quarts 

 of raspberries he might gather. 



Nathan Moore's practice, as related to me 

 years ago by his son Chandler, was to set out from 

 home with snowshoes, muzzle-loader, and pack, 

 and look for game for the backwoods market. As. 

 soon as moose "sign" suggested caution, Nathan 

 would take from his pack a suit of sheeting, which 

 he would pull on over his ordinary clothing, and 

 thus clad would advance carefully, the white 

 clothing making him inconspicuous against the 

 background of snow. A moose yard once found, 

 a general cleanup of all the animals in it was an 

 easy matter, for in the deep snows the larger hoofed 

 animals are helpless. The game would be dressed 

 and hung up, and nature would provide cold- 



