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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
whoop !” speeds onward, almost maddened by the emulation 
and excitement, leaving to the laggers, who increase their pace 
at the rifle crack and death halloo ! the care of breaking up and 
gralloching the mighty carcase. 
This is the mode of Moose hunting, whether you find him in 
his yard, or start him from it unawares; or yet again, if you 
find the trail of his deeply-dinted foot, where he has wandered 
at his own will through the wilderness. 
It is a sport for men, not to be assayed of babes or sucklings, 
and only to be enjoyed—without the aid of Indians or back¬ 
woodsmen—by the accomplished and experienced forester, 
who, with no provision but his rifle, axe, and knife, his tinder- 
box, his biscuits, and his salt, will fatten on the luxuries of the 
land, where the spruce city sportsman would unquestionably 
starve. Assisted, however, by Indians, or old hunters, any man, 
possessed of stout thews and sinews, long-winded, and accus¬ 
tomed to field exercise, may embark on such an expedition as I 
have described, with the certainty, or something very like it, of 
enjoying glorious sports, and great fun beside. No particular 
fitness, or unusual powers are required, as is evident from the 
fact I have recorded above, of the great sport which fell to the 
lot of twenty-three officers of the Guards—for it is well known 
that the officers of that splendid corps are the flower of the Eng¬ 
lish gentry, who live high, and sleep soft, and certainly are in no 
wise habituated to the hardships of a life in the woods—though, 
be it remembered, en passant , when need is to rough it, no man 
roughs it better or more uncomplainingly, than your thorough¬ 
bred English gentleman,—it is your cockney, who first gives 
himself airs, and everybody else trouble, rnd then gives— out ! 
Verbum sap. . 
For the rest, no particular instructions are needed, nor can be 
given for this sport. The best place to aim at, when a fair shot 
presents itself on a Moose—or indeed on any animal—is the arch 
of the ribs, immediately behind the fore-shoulder, that is to say, 
at about two-thirds of the depth from the withers downward. 
If you are compelled to take the head, directly between the 
