December, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
65 
A MOOSE HUNT 
IN NOVA SCOTIA 
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a day and turned into our sleeping bags. 
The next morning we rose about sun- 
rise. There were delicate pink and gold 
shades in the east, as we hurriedly 
dressed and prepared our breakfast. It 
was an exhilarating, frosty September 
morning. After a breakfast of coffee 
and eggs, which tasted very differently 
from a similar repast in town, we start- 
ed on a still hunt after our bull of the 
night before. The wind was from the 
north and therefore Bob reasoned that 
he would be in the woods to the north- 
west of us, or work gradually around 
us to where he would get our scent 
somewhere to leeward. After strolling 
for some time in the bushes, we found 
what looked like his tracks, showing 
that our theory was correct, that he had 
made off to thick cover somewhere west 
of our tent. We saw numerous other 
fresh tracks of moose and heard the 
drumming of several partridges. Rabbit 
tracks, chipmunk and squirrel of the 
small red species were numerous. 
My guide, Bob Crowell, is about six 
feet, spare, lean and rangy, very strong, 
and tough as a hickory knot— a thor- 
ough woodsman. With his brown shirt, 
moccasins or larrigan shoes, he looked 
not unike one of Cooper’s heroes. After 
an early supper Bob began calling, and 
after calling several times a bull moose 
answered from woods over to north of 
us, but kept under cover. At no time 
did he show himself, although he an- 
swered several times. Shortly after- 
wards we heard the bull answer around 
to the east of our tent, back in the woods, 
and it sounded as if he were very close 
to the tent. After this there was a long 
pause and we heard nothing, save per- 
haps the gloomy, weird cry of an owl. 
Just as Bob blew out the candle and we 
drew the blankets over us, he said: “If 
that moose keeps this up long enough 
we’ll get him.” 
O N the fourth morning of our hunt 
we breakfasted a bit late and hav- 
ing laid the rifle down for a mo- 
ment I was sitting down, talking with 
my guide, who was intently watching 
some object, when suddenly he cried: 
“There he is!” I jumped up, seized the 
rifle and said: “Where?” Bob said: 
“There,” pointing to a small fir tree 
about 120 yards to the northwest of our 
tent. At first I could not make out the 
bull, which all this time was traveling 
for the edge of the woods about 400 
yards off, as fast as his long legs could 
carry him. Trying to draw a bead on 
him, I found myself entangled in some 
bushes. Clearing myself I stepped to 
the left, raised my rifle and took as good 
a sight as I could with the 50-yard sight 
and fired just as Bob Crowell gave him 
a call, which lured the bull to pause and 
to look back over his left shoulder, think- 
ing it might be a cow calling him after 
all. Like Lot’s wife, his curiosity was 
the cause of his destruction. He had 
then traversed a space of at least 300 
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