_0 poUNDED A.D.1873 
Vol. LXXXVII 
MARCH, 1917 
No. 3 
CALLING THE MOOSE 
IN THE BIG NORTH WOODS 
HE first of October in the 
North Woods, the acme of 
the autumn glory, when “each 
maple is a torch of flame”— 
here again we are at the best. 
You are fresh from a desk 
in town. At the club you have downed 
many a big bull. Long, long ahead you have 
planned this hunt, and your Uncle Ned is 
waiting with the other guides, outfit and 
provisions at the starting point. 
Charlie will be your guide. Yes, Charlie 
will please you. He is a trifle keep-offish 
at first acquaintance—wants to size you up 
—but I wouldn’t have delivered you to his 
tender mercies if I hadn’t confidence in 
your ability to pass the examination. 
Once Charlie approves of you, he be¬ 
comes a good deal more approachable; he 
thaws out and even becomes garrulous. 
Nothing bothers Charlie so much as to be 
asked foolish questions by people whom he 
doesn’t care for—those who haven’t stood 
the woods test. 
I remember a certain serious calamity 
that happened to us on one hunt. The ca- 
BY UNCLE NED BUCKSHAW 
Uncle Ned at Peace With the World. 
lamity was the bringing along of a chap 
who seemed a very decent fellow at the 
bridge table at the club. But once in the 
wilderness he proceeded to develop an out¬ 
fit of annoying idiosyncrasies, any one of 
which would in Charlie’s eyes have con¬ 
signed him to that warm bright spot to 
which Billy Sunday so loves to send our 
friends. 
Brown (let us not immortalize him by 
naming him rightly in Forest and Stream) 
nearly drove Charlie wild with fool-ques¬ 
tions, half of which were self-answerable 
and the other half unanswerable. 
E VERY guide is nuts on rifles, and the 
first article of your equipment that 
Charlie will examine will be your 
shooting-iron. Like most old hunters in 
thick country, he will be satisfied if you 
have a heavy caliber, say a .45-70 Win¬ 
chester, preferably the lightweight with 
nickel-steel barrel, or that terror, the .405. 
If you produce a .30-30 he will frown and 
likely tell you a series of stories about 
moose he has seen lost by using popguns 
like that. Of late Charlie has learned some¬ 
thing, particularly from Major Hinman, 
