i64 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



meat which had been killed less than three days 

 before by a woodsman who had neglected to 

 include cheesecloth in his outfit. 



In the calling season a thermos bottle, to supply 

 a drink of hot tea at the calling stand without 

 building a fire, will be appreciated. Some hunters 

 seek to supply warmth by carrying a flask of liquor. 

 But hot tea will kill more moose than cold whisky. 

 *'If you are one of those fellows who will use rum 

 when you're calling," said a sportsman I once 

 met, — and it sounded as if it was the beginning of a 

 temperance lecture, — "if you will use rum, take a 

 thermos bottle with hot tom-and-jerry in it. I 

 do!" A second thermos bottle, with hot tea for 

 breakfast, will be useful if one tents at the calling 

 stand, a mile or two from the main camp, to be 

 ready for the daylight call. 



Among minor articles which may well be in- 

 cluded in the kit is a six-foot steel tape. It will 

 save guesswork when a pair of antlers is to be 

 measured, or other dimensions taken. The lack 

 of such a measure is responsible for many of the 

 absurd exaggerations with respect to spread of 

 antlers and height at withers which have intruded 

 into the literature of the moose, and which have 

 brought into question the veracity of the writers. 

 Thoreau's umbrella (!) and the boat's painter. 



