finally they will eat out of their bene- 
factor’s hands. I remember once hav- 
ing a lady and gentleman from New 
Hampshire with me. They were eat- 
ing dinner from a table in the door 
yard one day, and the lady had been 
feeding and coaxing up a moose bird 
until it would light on the corner of 
the table. I was sitting a short dis- 
tance away watching the performance 
when the cook brought out a slice of 
toast to the lady. I saw that the moose 
bird took particular notice how much 
larger the toast was than the piece of 
bread she gave him, and I.made up my 
mind something was going to happen. 
The next swoop down he made he failed 
to light on the table but seized the 
piece of toast and flew off. The lady 
looked up in surprise and exclaimed, 
“Oh you ungrateful villain,” and we 
had a good laugh at her. 
Another time I saw a moose bird, in 
the road ahead of me, very busy with 
something. I crept up quietly and found 
him tormenting a toad. He would pick 
at it and turn it over on its back, and 
as the toad righted itself, the bird 
would repeat the performance. 
The moose bird is a nuisance in every 
sense of the word, but at the same time 
extremely interesting. 
Does Not Believe Ruffed Grouse 
Nature Changes 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
HAVE read with interest Mr. Shel- 
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grouse and regret that I cannot agree 
with much of what he has to say about 
dogs or the habits of birds. It is my 
experience that grouse always have 
scattered and then come together after 
the driving winter storms set in. Here 
in Pennsylvania they have the same 
nature they always had and will lie to 
a dog as well as ever they did. During 
a stormy open season, with storm in the 
air at all times, they are wild and al- 
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gunned, are educated to the danger, it 
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here next week. They have little to 
show worth seeing. 
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