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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life + +Author: Burt Jones + +Release Date: August 21, 2011 [EBook #37151] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HABITS, HAUNTS, ANECDOTES OF MOOSE *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 436px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="436" height="650" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/sig.jpg" width="450" height="386" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h1> +<i>Habits<br /> +Haunts<br /> +<span class="sm">and</span><br /> +Anecdotes<br /> +<span class="sm">of</span><br /> +The Moose<br /> +<span class="sm">and</span><br /> +Illustrations from Life</i><br /> +</h1> + +<h2><i>By Burt Jones</i></h2> + +<h3><i>Founder of the National Sportsman</i></h3> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"> +To<br /> +<br /> +E. A. D.<br /> +<br /> +This volume is respectfully dedicated.<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Copyrighted, 1901,<br /> +By<br/> +<span class="smcap">Charles Albert Jones</span>.<br/> +<br /> +Press of<br /> +<span class="smcap">Alfred Mudge & Son</span>,<br /> +Boston.<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i008.jpg" width="650" height="434" alt="YOUNG BULL MOOSE NEAR RUSSELL POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">YOUNG BULL MOOSE NEAR RUSSELL POND.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> +<h2>NOTE TO THE READER.</h2> + + +<p>I wish to extend to the following well-known sportsmen my sincere thanks +for their kindness in contributing to the illustrated section of this +volume: Mr. G. E. Harrison, of the New York Press Club; Dr. O. H. Stevens, +Marlboro, Mass.; Messrs. Harry L. and Louis O. Tilton, Newton, Mass.; Mr. +George M. Houghton, Bangor, Maine; and Mr. John E. Barney, Canaan, N. H., +who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> secured the photographs facing pages 55, 61, 83, and 127, the one +opposite page 55 deserving special mention, as, in my estimation, it is the +finest photograph of live cow moose and calves in existence.</p> + +<p>The entire collection is copyrighted, and any infringement on the same will +be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + + +<p>"This is the forest primeval." "It is my home." So spoke the moose. Suffice +it is to say, that a prize trophy over one's fireplace is an object to be +admired by one and all. It brings you back to a last hunting trip, and well +do you remember, as you gaze thereon, what a chase it had led you in life, +through bog and alder swamp, until at last an opportunity presented itself +whereby the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> deadly missile from your rifle sends him to his death. As the +blue rings of smoke from your brier pipe float up and away, you are carried +in thought to the North Woods wherein he roamed. There he lived, a monarch +of all he surveyed. The excitement of the chase, while it is on, knows no +bounds, but at the death it subsides, and you return to civilization to +recall the event only when the time arrives that another pilgrimage to the +happy hunting grounds is in order. On the other hand, you find him as a +subject for your camera. An excellent one, too. Exiled in his domain for a +few weeks and a wealth of enjoyment is yours, as, during the long winter +evenings,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> you may open your album and see him before you as he was in +life. The smoke from the same pipe will float up and away, and you can for +a moment realize what a happy pastime you have enjoyed while a guest of +Dame Nature in the Haunts of the Moose.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> +<h2>TO HIS LORDSHIP.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Deep in the silent forest, where oft I've chanced to roam,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The monarch moose inhabits, it is his woodland home;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By silent lake at morning, by logan, calm at night,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Majestic stands his lordship, stands motionless in sight.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The north wind to him is music, the tall pines are his friends,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The rivers madly rushing, o'er the rocks and round the bends,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Seems to him a heavenly blessing, seems to him the work above<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of a kind and thoughtful Father, and His beings He doth love."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i018.jpg" width="650" height="425" alt="BULL MOOSE IN BLACK POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE IN BLACK POND.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i019.jpg" width="500" height="70" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Habits and Haunts. Sections Where Found. Still Hunting. +Calling. Possible Extermination.</span></p></div> + + +<p>Throughout the vast depths of the northern forests, bordered by the virgin +growth of a trackless wilderness, often with an imperial fringe of +timber-crowned hills, lives the moose. He is the largest, as well as the +most highly prized, live game animal extant to-day on the American +continent. Formerly, this species was very abundant throughout the region +of country extending<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> from the wilds of Northern Maine westward through the +wilderness bordering on the Great Lakes and far beyond; but great havoc has +been wrought, especially during the past twenty-five years, in the supply +of this variety of game.</p> + +<p>Comparatively few are killed annually in the United States, and those +mostly within the limits of Northern Maine and the States of the far +Northwest, where the pernicious activity of the professional hunters and +self-styled sportsmen, who kill the large beasts during the prevalance of +deep snows, will, if not checked, bring the moose into the list of extinct +species of American game before the close of another decade.</p> + +<p>No animal is so persistently hunted,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> and when killed, none considered so +grand a trophy as his lordship. Owing to the comparatively small section of +this country that he inhabits they are few in number, the Maine and +Canadian wildernesses sheltering by far more moose than any other section. +What few specimens found in far-off Alaska are world beaters in regard to +size of body and spread of antlers, one having been shot in that territory +whose horns measured over eight feet from tip to tip.</p> + +<p>The best breeding and feeding grounds are along the Canadian border, while +favorite localities for the sportsmen are in the vicinity of lakes, ponds, +and dead waters throughout the aforementioned sections.</p> + +<p>In appearance the moose is large and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> awkward; its huge head and broad +nose, combined with its short, thick neck, giving it a rather grotesque +appearance. In color, he is brown, while his legs and belly are grayish. +His mane is almost black, and at any approaching danger rises upward, +making him a most formidable foe to look upon.</p> + +<p>The moose travels over the ground in a swinging trot, exhibiting remarkable +speed. This style of locomotion is adopted only when the animal is suddenly +started. If the presence of man is detected, while the hunter is yet some +distance away, the moose moves off with considerable caution, often +selecting a course which the follower can pursue only with the greatest +difficulty.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i024.jpg" width="650" height="532" alt="COW MOOSE ON BLACK POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE ON BLACK POND.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>The endurance of the animal is such that only the hardiest of hunters can +hope to overtake him in a stern chase when he has once become alarmed. The +broad, palmate antlers are a distinguishing feature, and happy is the +hunter who can boast the possession of a head as a trophy taken from an +animal killed by himself. While few are successful in this respect the +greater majority must be content with perhaps a view of his lordship at a +distance.</p> + +<p>Still hunting, or stalking the moose in his native wilds, is a branch of +sport successfully followed by none except the skilled woodsmen and hardy +hunter. The fatigue and countless obstacles to be met with are such that +comparatively few amateur sportsmen attempt it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> More frequently the animal +is driven to the water by the guides and woodsmen, or attracted to such +localities by calling.</p> + +<p>In Northern Maine and in the Canadian Provinces, the moose is often hunted +during early winter by pursuing him on snow-shoes. Jacking is often +effectively followed in mid-summer, along the lakes and rivers. This method +is considered unsportsmanlike by those who possess the requisite skill and +endurance to adopt the style of still hunting.</p> + +<p>In size and weight he exceeds that of the horse, specimens having been shot +that weighed over twelve hundred pounds and stood seven and one-half feet +to the shoulder.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i028.jpg" width="650" height="506" alt="COW MOOSE IN HARRINGTON LAKE. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE IN HARRINGTON LAKE.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + +<p>In the summer he is to be seen feeding in and near the streams on the lily +roots, of which he is exceedingly fond. This is the time of year that he is +easily approached from a canoe as he stands, with head submerged, eating +that dainty morsel. The black flies, at this season, are also to a great +extent responsible for his taking to the water, as any of my readers who +have had a few of these insects on them at one time usually feel disposed +to follow his example in their endeavor to rid themselves of this pest.</p> + +<p>As winter approaches he leaves the lakes and streams, forming a yard or +runway by passing to and fro, beating a track, and keeping the snow packed +down hard. These runways are always located where there is good feed to be +had from young hardwood trees, such<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> as the moosewood (a species of ash), +also poplar, birch, and mosses near at hand. He does not feed from the +ground, and, owing to the great height of his forelegs, he can reach from +eight to ten feet to secure his food. Nor are all these twigs tender, for +his lordship makes short work of biting off a sapling an inch through if it +is to his liking.</p> + +<p>Moose bring forth their young in May. Two calves are born, as a rule, +though sometimes not more than one. The calf stays with the mother at least +a year, and often two. While the cow moose is a timid animal, she is brave +in defending her young. A story told by a trustworthy Indian guide +illustrates this point.</p> + +<p>While paddling on Chesuncook Lake,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> one day, the guide saw a cow moose and +a calf come down the bank and enter the water. He watched them until they +had waded some distance from shore, when his attention was arrested by +another animal coming out of the woods near them. It was a black bear. The +bear was not seen by the cow. He slipped easily into the water and waded +towards the cow and calf. Presently he got beyond his depth, his legs being +much shorter than even a calf moose's, and therefore had to swim. He swam +directly for the calf, and was rapidly nearing it when the cow saw him. The +ungainly beast turned with remarkable quickness towards the bear, whom she +attacked with her fore feet. Three or four sharp jabs with her pointed +hoofs<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> was enough to insure the protection of her offspring, with whom she +soon left the water. The bear appeared to be <i>hors de combat</i>, and the +guide paddled up to him, to find that his back had been broken by the +powerful blows of the cow. The Indian dispatched the bear with his knife +and saved the pelt.</p> + +<p>In size and strength the bull moose is probably the equal of any antlered +animal that ever lived, one having been shot in Maine with a spread of over +six feet. He sheds these splendid antlers every winter, generally in +January. They are found sometimes by woodsmen, but usually are gnawed and +eaten up by small animals as soon as dropped, as they have a salty flavor +that makes them palatable to squirrels, sable, and the like.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>Owing to the color of his coat, it is hard to detect a moose sometimes in +"black growth," that is, spruce or hemlock, for his upper part is brownish +black, and his legs tone off into gray or yellowish white. The shanks are +esteemed by residents of the woods country for making boots or "shoepacks," +the hair being left on and turned outward. Such foot covering lasts +indefinitely and sheds water perfectly. The hoof is peculiarly flexible, +and divided farther, for example, than in the case of the ox. This enables +him to walk easily on slippery surfaces, and through bogs, by spreading the +hoofs. It is said that he can pass through a swamp where a man would become +foundered, while the speed with which he passes over moss-grown boulders,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +or masses of blown-down trees, is remarkable.</p> + +<p>It is most discouraging, after tracking your game for hours at a time, to +finally have to give it up on account of darkness setting in. Lighting your +pipe, you retrace your steps to camp and await the coming of the morrow, +when the routine of the previous day is gone over. It is the quiet, careful +man who succeeds in tracking, as the breaking of a twig or the brushing of +one's coat against a tree will jump your game, and in his fright he travels +many miles before stopping.</p> + +<p>He is an exceptionally keen-scented animal, and mark you well as to the +general direction of the wind before leaving camp, as to work along with it +is fatal. Miles before you have seen him he smells you and immediately +increases the distance from his would-be foe.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i036.jpg" width="650" height="453" alt="TWIN MOOSE CALVES, THREE DAYS OLD. + +(Taken at the Headwaters of the Liverpool River, Nova Scotia.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">TWIN MOOSE CALVES, THREE DAYS OLD.<br /> + +(Taken at the Headwaters of the Liverpool River, Nova Scotia.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the rutting season is at its height, along about the first of October, +and the days warm, another method of moose-hunting is brought into +play,—that of imitating the call of the cow with a birch horn about +eighteen inches in length. There are many expert moose-callers in Maine and +the Canadian Provinces, though they have by no means a monopoly of this +accomplishment. The sound is most peculiar, and can only be acquired by +long practice. The most expert callers are those who have taken lessons +from nature,—that is, have been close to a female moose when she was +calling the male. At least one in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> three of the Maine guides can call +moose. With his birch horn, and seated beside some lake on a quiet evening, +he sends back into the forest or across some shallow logan the weird +"woo-oo-oo, woo-woo-oo" of the cow moose calling the bull. If there be a +bull within hearing he will respond with a deep grunt. He will then tear +along through the woods in the direction of the call, and perhaps splash +out with a great noise into the shallow water where he expects to find a +mate answering his amorous advances.</p> + +<p>Ordinarily the moose is a silent animal, being very careful not to make a +noise. Old guides have said that in spite of his great spread of horns he +will pass quietly through a thick<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> growth. Generally, if seen in summer at +the edge of a lake or stream, he slips noiselessly into the woods, but when +the rutting season begins he casts his discretion to the winds and responds +to the call of the cow with noisy disregard of consequences. He is also +quarrelsome at such times, and should another bull happen to trespass on +what he considers his territory there may be trouble. The rutting season is +generally over by the first week in October, and the bulls will not answer +the calls after that, unless the weather should hold very warm. Most guides +claim that during the rutting season the bulls have a wide range, but that +the cows remain in one neighborhood.</p> + +<p>While yarded moose are very methodical<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> in their habits: they have, +however, a single eye to one object, the detection of any intruder, +therefore it is only by a knowledge of their habits that they can be +approached by the hunter. It is their keen sense of hearing and smell that +are to be guarded against, for as a rule, when the animal can see the +hunter, he can also see the moose, and his capture becomes simply a +question of marksmanship. It is certainly a unique sport and has few +successful aspirants.</p> + +<p>Of the two, still hunting is usually the more successful and the greater +number of moose are secured in that way. In the late fall, the coming of +the first snow doubles one's chances of success as every step of the animal +is shown. In tracking he usually goes through the worst places possible for +him to find, which adds to one's discomfort and lessens one's chances of a +shot.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i042.jpg" width="650" height="505" alt="BULL MOOSE SWIMMING MUSQUOCOOK LAKE. + +(St. John Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE SWIMMING MUSQUOCOOK LAKE.<br /> + +(St. John Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<p>Nature has bestowed upon him methods of passing through underbrush or +blowdowns silently where a man in following makes a noise ten times as +loud. The very silence of the forest is noisy. The wind whistling through +the tree-tops, the bushes grating against one another, both contribute to +make noise.</p> + +<p>Those of my readers who have heard the low, weird grunt of the bull moose, +and have listened to the music of the crashing of the underbrush as he +forces his way through in answer to the melancholy and drawn-out bellow of +the cow, will understand full well when I say that it cannot be described, +but must be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> heard to be appreciated, and is certainly worth all the +hardships it entails to be listened to only once.</p> + +<p>I remember well of a time that my guide called from the edge of a lake at +sunset, and received an answer from a large bull on a mountain a mile or +two away, where we could hear him coming nearer and nearer as the moments +wore on. After a half hour had elapsed he had reached the other side of the +lake, and was so close that we did not dare to repeat the call for fear he +would detect the artificial from the natural. He did not venture nearer, +and as it was too dark to see him across the lake, we returned to camp, but +that fifteen minutes will live long in my memory.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p> + +<p>To hunt moose successfully one must "rough it," and sleep without a fire, +as the best time to hunt is at sunset and daylight, and with their keen +sight and scent a fire means no moose.</p> + +<p>In his visits to the Maine woods half a century ago, Thoreau made copious +notes about the moose, which was then slaughtered indiscriminately, by +Indians and others, for their hides. This slaughter, which could not be +called hunting, shocked the gentle naturalist from Concord, who made the +prediction that "the moose will, perhaps, some day become extinct, and +exist only as a fossil relic." This may be true, but the animal has +judicial friends, and so long as they protect him, it does not appear as if +the moose could become extinct from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> slaughter. Indeed, it is claimed that +as many if not more moose are to be found now than fifty years ago.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 270px;"> +<img src="images/i046.jpg" width="270" height="100" alt="" title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 514px;"> +<img src="images/i048.jpg" width="514" height="650" alt="LARGE BULL MOOSE ON MUD POND BROOK. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life. Time exposure." title="" /> +<span class="caption">LARGE BULL MOOSE ON MUD POND BROOK.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life. Time exposure.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i019.jpg" width="500" height="70" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">The Provincial Moose. A Battle for Supremacy. Luck and +Ill-luck. The Judge and the Banker.</span></p></div> + + +<p>One of the greatest moose regions in the world is that portion of land +drained by the tributaries of the St. John, Miramichi, and Restigouche +rivers. It is true that portions of Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Labrador are +roamed over by herds of these magnificent animals, but the best specimens +of the race are found within the compass of Eastern New Brunswick.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is a country of hill and dale, cedar swamps, hardwood ridges, and +barrens, where the blueberry, the hackmatack, and here and there stunted +tamaracks break the general sweep of waste country. Along these barrens the +moose loves to roam. Here he finds the moss of which he is so fond, and +here, too, he gets the young shoots of various shrubs on which he feeds. He +can also keep a weather eye on the approach of danger, and as he feeds, he +occasionally throws his massive head in the air, and takes a sudden and +piercing glance around the landscape. If satisfied, he gives a short grunt +of evident pleasure and proceeds with his feeding.</p> + +<p>The best horns are secured in the months of late October, November, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> +early December. In January the horn begins to get soft, and soon falls off. +It is said by hunters that the largest animals lose their antlers weeks +earlier than the younger bulls. It is also claimed that the natural color +of the moose-horn is white; that this is the color when the velvet comes +off, but that contact with the trees, and rubbing against the +bark—something which the moose apparently delights in—causes the horn to +take that pretty shade of antique oak. There is all the difference in the +world in horns. Some have a multitude of points; some have wider webs; some +have stouter horn stems; some set more gracefully on the skull; some lie +more horizontally than others; so that when the term a "choice head" is +used it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> means that nature has given the bull all the beauty of antlers in +profusion.</p> + +<p>With far greater agility and cunning than any other animal of its weight, +the moose is a formidable opponent when attacked. Some narrow escapes have +been made by hunters using the old cap gun, but now with the breech-loader +the speed that guarantees security is given.</p> + +<p>I have seen a great curiosity in the form of the horns of two moose +inextricably interlocked. The story these horns tell is that a duel to the +death had taken place in a forest glade between a bull moose of eight +hundred pounds weight and a younger one of perhaps four hundred pounds. The +larger had an antler spread of three feet eight inches, the smaller, that +of three feet. In the shock of the conflict, the horns of the younger had +fitted snugly into the many branches of the other set of antlers, and the +heads were as solidly and as perfectly fastened together as if bolted with +iron.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i054.jpg" width="650" height="520" alt="COW MOOSE, WITH CALVES, SWIMMING MUD POND. + +(West Branch Waters.)" title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE, WITH CALVES, SWIMMING MUD POND.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<p>That the fight had been long and stubborn the horns showed. Where they had +come together they had been rubbed and worn to the depth of half an inch.</p> + +<p>The younger had died first, whether from exhaustion, or a broken neck, or +starvation, is not apparent, but the condition of the flesh when found +showed that he had lost the fight; and the victor did not long survive. +Fastened to his dead competitor he could not feed with this weight of four +hundred pounds attached to him, and must have succumbed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> to starvation. A +similar case is reported, and is thus described:—</p> + +<p>"No mortal eye witnessed what must have been a prolonged and fearful +contest; but when their bodies were found in the lake the story of what had +taken place was easily understood. The ground for some distance from the +lake was torn and trampled where the ferocious animals had charged upon +each other, and when the bodies were examined the antlers were found to be +so firmly interlocked that it was impossible to separate them. In order to +secure one good pair the finder sawed the other pair away, it not occurring +to him at the time that the interlocked antlers would be of considerably +more value than many pairs in the ordinary condition.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> In this instance it +was evident that the stronger had gone to his death because of his +strength. One of the two was much stronger than the other, and under +ordinary circumstances this would have secured him the victory. As it was, +the advantage was fatal. In rushing at each other, the antlers of the two +locked together, and it was then that the larger moose thought he had the +smaller one at his mercy. So he had, as far as the ability to push him +about and force him back was concerned, but when the larger animal forced +the smaller into the lake, both were indeed in a common peril and shared a +common fate."</p> + +<p>Moose are not secured in a day. In fact, the greater majority of sportsmen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +require several trips to the woods to assure them success. There are +exceptions to this rule, however.</p> + +<p>I recall the case of a sportsman who went into the wilderness for a +two-weeks stay with his wife, and brought down a moose the first day out. +He had no thought of getting one when he started, but it being his wife's +birthday, he indulged in a dream and told her that she would be presented +with a pair of moose antlers by him for a birthday present. This naturally +pleased her ladyship, and her liege lord took his gun, his guide and canoe, +and started out to try to fulfil his promise.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i060.jpg" width="650" height="520" alt="SPIKE-HORN BULL SWIMMING MUD POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SPIKE-HORN BULL SWIMMING MUD POND.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the canoe emerged from the stream into the pond the hunter and guide +were surprised enough to see, at the edge, in shallow water, a large bull +moose. The animal was up to his back feeding on the lily roots, splashing +his great head about, and having no fear, in his lonely retreat, of being +interrupted by hunters. The wind, being in the right direction, gave the +men an advantage, as the moose could not scent them. The guide approached +cautiously, never taking his paddle from the water as he propelled the +light craft along.</p> + +<p>Suddenly the moose heard something, perhaps the gentle splash of water +against the canoe, that made him look around. For a second he gazed +silently at the two men sitting in the little craft, now scarcely a hundred +yards away. Then he swung his great body slowly around<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> (as there was soft +mud on the pond bottom, and he could not make way swiftly in it) and +started for the bank. The hunter held his fire, fingering his gun-lock +nervously, until the moose had reached firm ground. It would not have done +to shoot him in the mire, for, the water being shallow, half a dozen men +could not have extracted the body; but with the first step the great beast +(with mud and water dripping from his body) took upon the shore, a bullet +pierced him in the neck. Then there was a succession of shots, and little +jets of blood spurted out on the dark brown coat of the forest giant, who +by this time was making rapid way along the rocky shore of the pond. A +dense cedar swamp lay inland from the shore, and into it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> the wounded moose +did not dare to plunge. He must retreat under fire, like a general with the +enemy on one side and a river on the other.</p> + +<p>At last he disappeared in a thicket. The hunters had gone ashore and were +after him, coming up just as he sank to earth. A bullet behind the ear +discharged his debt to nature.</p> + +<p>That night a noble head adorned the camp of the hunter, who had +unexpectedly made good a promise his wife never expected him to fulfil.</p> + +<p>Contrast this experience with another I have in mind, and the two sides of +moose hunting will be illustrated. For three seasons a good hunter from a +Massachusetts town had gone into Maine to get a moose, and three times he +had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> returned home empty handed. He scorned to shoot deer. He hardly would +have brought down a bear had one presented himself to be shot. He wanted +moose. It was a hard country for hunting, a place of boulders and blowdowns +and stumps,—a desolate waste. He saw moose tracks, and he was there to +follow them, which he did long and wearily, for a day, and at night he +slept in an abandoned camp. Again on the next day he followed them, seeing +them sometimes on the soft, green moss, again at the side of a stream, or +in some boggy place. At times they were lost on a rocky slope, or in a +region of hard ground. There was no snow to aid the hunter, and the +tracking of moose in such a country without it called for the best traits +of the seasoned sportsman,—patience and endurance.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 519px;"> +<img src="images/i066.jpg" width="519" height="650" alt="BULL MOOSE IN DEEP SNOW. + +Taken during January, near Eagle Lake. + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE IN DEEP SNOW.<br /> + +Taken during January, near Eagle Lake.<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p> + +<p>The trail led uphill at last, and after following it up the base of a +mountain, amid scrub growth and blowdowns, the hunter was rewarded by +seeing at long range a large bull. The moose scented the hunter almost as +soon as sighted, and stood not upon the order of his going but sought a +lower level. It was at this juncture that the resource of the experienced +hunter came in. He did not stand and watch the animal disappear. Not he! +Sending along a lead missile to announce his intentions, he set out in hot +pursuit. There began such a chase as hunters seldom engage in. The moose +had an advantage over the man, for he could take long leaps<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> over +depressions in the ground, and over fallen trees and big rocks. The hunter +had to jump, run, slide, and bound along as best he could. He saw nothing +but the moose, and he saw him only as one sees an express train +disappearing in a fog. Whenever, by some change in the course of the +animal, or a favorable turn in the ground, a shot was offered, the hunter +fired; then he would pump another cartridge into the chamber of his rifle, +and resume the pace.</p> + +<p>Thus tearing at break-neck speed down a rough mountain side, the sportsman, +followed by his puffing guide, gradually came up to the moose. The bullets +had taken effect, though not in a vital part, and the animal was weakening. +But moose and hunter plunged<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> on, through woods and under brush that grew +at the bottom of the mountain, and at last, after what seemed a chase of a +dozen miles, but which in reality might have been three, the hunter came +into full sight of his anticipated prize in a clearing. This time the +animal was in a position for a telling shot, which was sped with good aim, +and brought the great beast to his knees. Another ended his career, and the +hunter, out of breath, sat down to wipe his brow. He had lost his hat and +mittens in the chase, his clothing was torn, and he was battered and +bruised. This counted for nothing. He had brought down his moose after four +seasons' work. It was necessary to "swamp" a road, that is, cut one through +the woods, for a mile to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> get the carcass to a logging road over which it +could be hauled to the river. As the first snow of the season fell that +night the moose was brought out and it was comparatively easy work to get +him to the railroad station on the next day.</p> + +<p>One more moose story may not be amiss. It has to do with a party of +sportsmen, consisting of a judge and a banker, who went into a famous moose +country to try their luck. They fired but one round during their stay in +the woods, and with a guide brought down in that one volley three large +bull moose. The story is fully vouched for and the heads of two of the +bulls may now be seen in an Aroostook town.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i072.jpg" width="650" height="520" alt="BULL MOOSE ON BLACK POND. (West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE ON BLACK POND. (West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p> + +<p>These two hunters, like the first one mentioned, did not expect to find +moose. They thought luck might take a turn in their favor, but were ready +to sustain themselves in hope deferred if it did not.</p> + +<p>The judge and the banker went into the woods from a little settlement on +the Aroostook River. They travelled a good sixty miles by horse-sled in the +snow before reaching the place where they were to engage guides. It was +another twenty-five miles to the camp where they put up on their first +night out, a "depot" camp, where lumber crews going in and out stopped to +rest and sleep.</p> + +<p>On the morning after their arrival the two hunters set out in the snow with +their guide to look for moose signs. They walked half a dozen miles without +finding any, and, getting tired, went<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> back to camp, leaving the guide to +pursue the quest, and let them know when he came up to a moose. This was +not thoroughly sportsmanlike, they knew, but they were a pair of worthy +men, past the meridian of life, and they did not stand on the ethics of the +hunt.</p> + +<p>That night the guide returned and told them he knew where there was a yard +of moose. Next morning, in the sharp air of a snappy-cold dawn, they set +out to find the moose, and had walked but a few miles when tracks were +found in the snow. Then, with the guide leading them, stopping as he went +to avoid low branches laden with snow that hung across their way, or +bending aside some twig to avoid noise,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> they half walked, half crawled for +upwards of a mile.</p> + +<p>They saw moose signs that seemed to them good. At last the guide held up a +warning hand, and proceeded more slowly than formerly.</p> + +<p>After many cranings of his neck and changes of position, he drew aside a +branch and told his followers by signs to look in the direction he +indicated with his snow-covered mitten. They looked, but could see nothing +special at first. The guide patiently pointed out to them a clump of bushes +against which he could see the heads of two moose. The animals were lying +down, with their heads to the wind, as is always their custom. The hunters +were for firing precipitately, but their ardor, so quickly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> aroused, was +dampened by the guide, who motioned them to wait. There was a good wind +blowing, and it came from the moose to the men. Moreover, it made a noise +in the trees, and whispering was therefore safe among the hunters crouched +in the snow. The guide informed them that there were three moose in the +bunch. The judge and the banker could see but two, and these presented as +fair a mark as ever man found for rifle.</p> + +<p>When the word was given the two men fired, also the guide. There was a +movement among the moose, and the hunters rushed forward to see the +execution they had wrought. It was startling. There in the snow, still +kicking and quivering, lay three large moose. To the worthy judge and +banker they looked as big as oxen. All three were in the throes of death.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i078.jpg" width="650" height="520" alt="COW AND CALF MOOSE LEAVING THE WATER. (Lobster Lake.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW AND CALF MOOSE LEAVING THE WATER. (Lobster Lake.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + +<p>There was great rejoicing in the depot camp that night. The two friends +thought themselves favored by the gods of the chase beyond their deserts. +The story of the great hunt was soon current in the community in which the +hunters lived. The version of it given here, with slight variations, is +that of one of the principals in the episode.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 270px;"> +<img src="images/i046.jpg" width="270" height="100" alt="" title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i082.jpg" width="650" height="520" alt="COW MOOSE AND CALVES SWIMMING MUD POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE AND CALVES SWIMMING MUD POND.<br /> + +(West Branch Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i019.jpg" width="500" height="70" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Anecdotes of the Moose. A Large Bull in Three Hours. +Moose will Answer a Call. Two Personal Experiences. +From a Guide's Standpoint. Crack Shots. A Jack, a +Moose, an Accident. A Noble Animal—but 't was June. +The Ablest Romance in Moose History.</span></p></div> + + +<p>Picture a hungry group at supper around the camp-fire as night shuts down, +when the noisy jest and laughter are suddenly interrupted by your guide. +Listen! There it is again from over the lake,—the fierce challenge of the +bull and the horn-like note of the cow!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> I'll not try to record the many +exciting incidents of those glorious morning and evening watches; how this +one saw his lordship in broad daylight swagger across the open, just out of +rifle range; how that one, in the darkness of the homeward trail, called a +jealous bull so near that he could hear him breathe ere the tell-tale human +scent turned his course; or how another stalked a cow moose by mistake, and +watched her some time, vainly hoping her lord would call; for every hunter +knows of these slips, making success more pleasant when it is yours.</p> + +<p>I must tell you, however, of that still October morning, of the faint mist +rising from the lake, of the bright hills so fairly mirrored by the clear +waters, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span> of the rising sun so dazzling on the mist and the water. +Suddenly the guide and I drop the half-prepared breakfast and take to the +canoe in haste. We had heard that note of notes—the angry challenge of a +bull moose. The remembrance of that morning brings back the sound as I +heard it a few miles away over the hills. Watch how the guide is carefully +following the course of the sound. We soon reach the other side. There he +is, head on! Wait! he may give a better shot. No! he sees the canoe. Shoot +now or he will be gone! Bang! A miss, for he did not flinch! The smoke +hides him! Bang! Bang! The guide has fired, too, but the smoke hampers +both. There he goes, crashing through the thicket! Let's give him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> another +for luck! He certainly was hard hit, and in that event it was best to let +him go, for after a short period of time he would lie down, become stiff, +and die. We paddled back to camp, finished breakfast, and in about three +hours returned to the place from whence he had entered the woods, and there +we found him, cold in death. He was a monster! A wealth of black, glossy +hair, a splendid bell, and massive antlers, fit to adorn any mantel.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 323px;"> +<img src="images/i088.jpg" width="323" height="650" alt="Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> + +<p>Three days later another fine bull fell to my party. Just at sunset he was +called out from across a pond, and strolled with that majestic woodland +swagger through the shallow water. The first shot so confused him that he +turned and came directly towards us, but soon veered off. At a closer range +this might have been interpreted as a fierce charge of the dying bull, +though it was merely an aimless start of surprise. He fell, with the ball +behind his shoulder, and we found him quite dead. It was a fatal one, +though it failed to stop him until he had gone fifty yards.</p> + +<p>There was one section I had not visited, and this was to the east, in the +direction of the brook which had proven too small for floating logs. So it +was that after pulling the cabin door to, I made tracks toward the stream, +which I knew must be asleep under four or five inches of ice and two feet +of snow.</p> + +<p>In half an hour's time I had reached the bank and crossed over, keeping +close to it all the time. I had not gone far<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> beyond the ravine-like +formation with the brook hugging its lowest point, when there were +unmistakable evidences of large game. Moose it was. Tracks as large as a +cow, great rents in the snow crust, through which the brown earth showed in +spots; these were some of the traces. I went back across the ravine and +proceeded up-stream, following the east bank; saw several fresh tracks, but +they were cows, and along in the afternoon, while travelling up an old +brook, I saw the imprints of a large bull, and they were big ones, together +with a cow and calf. It did not take me long to decide what to do, and as +they followed the brook I knew that they had not heard me. The wind was +favorable and they were working up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/i092.jpg" width="450" height="739" alt="Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<p>into it. Finally they left the brook and that necessitated more caution on +my part. I had covered about half a mile and I heard the cow calling. +Suddenly she came into view. I worked up to within forty yards of her in +hopes to find the bull, but ran into the calf, a two-year-old; luckily he +did not see me. Things were getting interesting, with a moose on my left +and another in front of me. Working my way cautiously along I heard the +bull in the thick growth. He was so covered that I could hardly see him. By +careful inspection, one antler and part of his shoulder showed. Raising my +rifle I fired, at which he stepped into the clearing and stood defiant. +What a noble looking fellow he was, and a monster in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> size as he stood +there shaking his head, blood running from his mouth and nostrils. Once +again I fired. As the last one struck he went down, the shot breaking his +shoulder blade—another victim of the 30-30.</p> + +<p>The experience of a young New Yorker will serve to exemplify both the +uncertainty of moose calling and the manner in which it is prosecuted. He +was hunting in the Bear River woods, accompanied by one of the most expert +guides of that section. Two nights of calling proved fruitless. The +sportsman frankly told his guide he had no faith in it, and that he did not +believe a moose would come to the call of a man. This considerably ruffled +the guide's conceit, and he resolved, if possible, to make a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> lasting +impression to the contrary on the mind of his employer. That afternoon an +ideal place for calling was chosen. The tent was pitched beside a giant +boulder, on one side of which a narrow, open bog stretched away between +wooded banks, and on the other a sort of natural park extended to the foot +of a ridge covered with hard wood. The guide exacted the promise that his +companion would not shoot until he gave the word. All arrangements being +complete, as the sun was nearing the western horizon, the guide climbed to +the top of the boulder and sounded the call.</p> + +<p>Almost immediately, from the ridge, about two miles away, came the +deep-voiced answer of an old bull. A few minutes sufficed to show that he +was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> coming at a rapid pace. The guide continued to call at regular +intervals, and in a few minutes another answer was heard far down the bog, +though this time from a smaller moose. A few seconds later brought a reply +from a third, in another direction. The sport was getting exciting. The +guide came down from his perch on the rock and stationed his employer and +himself behind a smaller boulder, over which it was possible to look while +lying on the ground. The guide thought the young moose would not come up +for fear of the larger ones, and of course the one he wanted was the +monster that had first answered. In that, however, he was disappointed. The +distance was considerable, and while the big bull was still a long way off +he was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 508px;"> +<img src="images/i098.jpg" width="508" height="650" alt="BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE. + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE.<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span></p> + +<p>interrupted and turned from his course by another party of hunters. The +little one on the bog ceased to answer, but the large one that had started +last was, when the sun went down, already quite near, and coming steadily +along. When the moose was about breaking cover the guide climbed partly up +the big rock and noted the direction from which he was coming, satisfying +himself the game would appear on the side of the boulder on which they were +stationed. Another call, and the bull's hoofs were heard beating the firm +ground as he trotted up the slope toward the men. In full view of the +hunters, and about ten yards from them, grew a bunch of sapling birches. +There the moose paused and began a furious onslaught with his antlers. +Having<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> tired of that, he turned toward the hunters, and going down on his +knees plowed his horns along the ground some distance, tossing them, well +loaded with vines, moss, and earth. With a snort, he shook these from his +head, the dirt falling on and around the two men lying behind the rock. The +city man about that time was enjoying his first acute attack of moose +fever. His teeth fairly chattered, and the guide had to grip his rifle +barrel to prevent it from rattling against the rock. Again the moose came +on and stood with his broadside toward them, not more than twelve feet from +the muzzle of the rifle. That was about as close quarters as the guide +cared for on his own account, so he gave the word to fire. The moose went +down<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> with the shot, but immediately rose to his feet again. Again the +rifle spoke, and down he went, only to rise again. The third shot, however, +dropped him for the last time. Any of them would have proved fatal, but the +moose was too close for the men to take any chances.</p> + +<p>The sportsman was convinced a moose would come at a man's call, and was so +excited over the fact that he slept none on that night.</p> + +<p>I recall an experience of mine with an old bull on Pockwockamus Dead Water +(from my note book), Oct. 21, 1899.</p> + +<p>I had gone only a few steps when I heard the splashing of a moose around +the bend of the stream ahead. There was a stretch of sand that led to an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> +island for which I made. There I concealed myself in the brush. I could +hear the big fellow wading along and ploughing through the reeds. I first +saw his antlers above the brush, and then his majestic head appeared. That +was all he would show, as he suspected a hidden foe and was on the lookout +for any apparent danger. For distance, he was about one hundred yards from +me and close inshore. Finally an opportunity presented itself, and I raised +my rifle and let go through the leaves where his neck should be. At the +report he made a quick turn and disappeared in the thick growth. I dashed +through the water, which was only about three feet deep, up the opposite +bank, and pushed my way through the bushes to where I had last seen him. +There he lay. My shot was fatal. As I appeared he snorted at me and tried +to regain his feet, but his efforts were ineffectual. I then put him out of +his misery with a shot through the heart.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i104.jpg" width="650" height="717" alt="COW MOOSE IN UMSASKIS LAKE. + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE IN UMSASKIS LAKE.<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p> + +<p>Still another is worthy of mention.</p> + +<p>At one time the guide and myself were coming back to camp, just about dusk, +after a long tramp, and were within sight of the tents, when we heard a +moose off to the right and close to the trail. The guide tried to coax him +out of the thicket by gently sounding the birch horn, which he had with +him. The moose turned with a crash and ran towards us, grunting all the +time. We were crouched behind a pile of birch brush. The big fellow kept +coming,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> until it seemed as if he might at any moment jump over the brush +pile and appear before us. It was too dark to shoot, so I slightly changed +my position, thinking I might see the moose outlined against the sky. Just +as I moved, the moose turned, ran some distance back into the woods and +stopped, grunting again as if he was not certain about it all; but he was +soon off, this time silently.</p> + +<p>The next morning I was out early examining the tracks, and found it only +sixteen paces from where we were behind the brush pile to where his +lordship had been standing. I could see where he had barked the trees with +his antlers when he was first frightened.</p> + +<p>It is fortunate for some of the sportsmen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> who journey to the north woods +after big game in the fall that their guides live so far away, otherwise +their reputation might suffer. This concerns both their personal traits and +their ability as hunters. Camp life brings out a man's true qualities. The +experience of a sportsman during his first attempt to lure a moose from his +home in the forest is related as follows:—</p> + +<p>One of the party tried his luck at calling. He left the guide at the camp. +Quietly hiding among some shrubs, he gave a gentle but long-drawn-out call +and waited results. Hardly had the notes died away than there was a +tremendous crash, the alders parted, and the head of a large bull moose +appeared in the leafy frame within ten feet of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> hunter. This abrupt +entrance dumfounded the sportsman whose confusion and consternation were +pretty evenly balanced at a moment when he needed his wits. Who was the +more frightened it was hard to tell. At any rate the caller returned to +camp posthaste minus his gun, horn, and hat, and with an expression that +was indeed pitiable.</p> + +<p>A guide, who had a well-known preacher in the woods for a short time one +season, refused to take him the following year. On being asked the reason +he said:—</p> + +<p>"That man cares only for himself and thinks his guide can be wound up with +a key to work like a machine. He may be good enough to preach the Gospel, +but he ain't good enough for me to guide."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i110.jpg" width="650" height="506" alt="YOUNG BULL AND COW MOOSE SWIMMING. + +(Lobster Lake.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">YOUNG BULL AND COW MOOSE SWIMMING.<br /> + +(Lobster Lake.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p> + +<p>Many are the stories told by the guides about the unsuccessful sportsmen +who lack the moral courage to go home empty-handed. So accustomed have the +guides become to this sort of thing that they take it for granted, unless +instructed to the contrary, that they are to kill the game their employer +is to take home with him, provided he does not meet with success in the +early part of the hunt.</p> + +<p>Another guide has to say of visiting sportsmen: "Some of them shoot all +right, of course, but others are regular Spaniards. I had a fellow up this +way last fall that thought he was death on anything walking on four legs, +and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> that his gun was the best shooting tool ever turned out of a gun +factory. I paddled him right up to a bull moose standing in the water one +day, and he fired every shot in his magazine at it without rumpling a hair.</p> + +<p>"He didn't know enough to stop pumping the lever when all his shells were +gone, and just about then I chipped in with my rifle and put a ball through +the moose's shoulder that dropped him handy to the bank. The sportsman was +in the act of pulling the trigger of his empty gun, when he saw the moose +fall, and he didn't for a moment doubt but what he had killed him. He felt +so good that he rose right up in the canoe and yelled, and the next thing I +knew the canoe kind of slid out from under us and over we went into four +feet of mud and water."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 527px;"> +<img src="images/i114.jpg" width="527" height="650" alt="BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE. + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE.<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p> + +<p>A New York sportsman had his guide call a moose into the East Branch +thoroughfare one evening just before dark, and the guide tells of his +difficulty in pointing him out to the sportsman, who happened to be +nearsighted. The moose walked right out into the water away from the +concealment of the bushes and stopped. The guide nudged the sportsman and +whispered to shoot.</p> + +<p>"Shoot what?" said the sportsman in a louder tone than was prudent under +the circumstances. "I don't see anything to shoot."</p> + +<p>"Shoot the moose," he whispered again, "there he stands under that +broken-topped spruce."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span></p> + +<p>The lawyer craned his neck and peered into every shadow but the right one. +Two or three rods below the moose was a clump of bushes growing out beyond +the general shore line. The lawyer finally singled this out as the moose +and opened fire. He was perfectly cool, and every one of his shots went +straight to the centre of the object at which he was firing.</p> + +<p>Moose are notoriously slow to start when alarmed, provided they have not +scented the hunter, and the one in question stood motionless until the +sportsman had fired five shots at his inanimate target and had but one +cartridge left in the magazine. Then the moose turned to escape, and, as +luck would have it, dashed directly into the line of fire. The lawyer saw +it, and with his sixth and last shot dropped the moose stone dead.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i118.jpg" width="650" height="650" alt="BULL MOOSE IN ALLAGASH STREAM. + +(St. John Waters.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL MOOSE IN ALLAGASH STREAM.<br /> + +(St. John Waters.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p> + +<p>On another occasion, a sportsman, to show his contempt for Maine's +prohibition law, got gloriously full every day before ten o'clock.</p> + +<p>The guide left him in the canoe one afternoon while he went ashore to look +for some game signs on a bog near at hand. As he was returning he saw a +nice moose step out of cover within ridiculously easy rifle shot of the +sportsman. The sportsman at once opened fire on the moose, but after many +shots the animal trotted off, untouched.</p> + +<p>"'T was this haway," said the bibulous hunter, in explaining his misses, +"when that moose came out there was only<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> one, all right enough, but when I +cut loose with the old gun, blame if the moose didn't double up into two. I +couldn't shoot both at once, and while I was pumping it into one the other +got away. Mus' ha' been I shot at the wrong moose."</p> + +<p>"You want to hear how my sports shoot?" said another native guide. "Well, +I'll tell you a little story and then you can judge for yourself. I started +out on the river one afternoon with a man from Boston, to look for moose. +It was a nice, quiet afternoon, and a good one to get game. We dropped down +stream with the current, and the first thing we knew there was a big bull +moose right out in the centre of the stream, sousing his head under<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i122.jpg" width="650" height="449" alt="BULL AND COW MOOSE. + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BULL AND COW MOOSE.<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p> + +<p>water, and feeding on the lily roots. Mr. A. was paralyzed at the sight, +for he never attempted to shoot. I held the canoe by putting my paddle down +to the bottom, to give him a chance to recover his nerve, and after a while +he realized what was expected of him, raised his rifle and fired. The shot +did not go any where near the moose, and the animal just raised his head +and stood there, looking back over its shoulder. I whispered to Mr. A.: +'You missed. Shoot again.' As it happened, my paddle slipped off into deep +water, and we were floating down on the moose and getting a good deal +closer than necessary. Mr. A. raised his gun and shot again, and then, as +the moose started to walk towards the bank, he got the action<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> limbered up +and fired four more shots as quick as he could work the lever. None of them +touched the moose, and it moved off into the bushes, without seeming to +mind the racket very much. The moose wasn't nearly as rattled as Mr. A. +That man was completely prostrated with excitement. Nothing would do but we +must go straight back to camp. He said his nerves were too badly broken up +to stand anything more of the kind that day.</p> + +<p>"Well, sir, we hadn't gone more than three hundred yards on our return +trip, when I saw another bull on the bog adjacent to the stream. I paddled +Mr. A. within good, easy range, and he tried his luck again, but the bullet +struck the water twenty feet to the right. With that he began to swear, and +he threw his rifle down on the bottom of the canoe, cussing it and +everything else in sight. The moose gave a sudden jump and disappeared in +the alders. I reckon the swearing scared it more than the shooting.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i126.jpg" width="650" height="578" alt="MOOSE CALVES LEAVING WATER. + +(Mud Pond Region.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MOOSE CALVES LEAVING WATER.<br /> + +(Mud Pond Region.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p> + +<p>"We hadn't more than a mile to go to reach camp, when Providence, just to +tantalize that man, gave him another opportunity. As we came around the +last bend, there stood a bull and a cow on the bank, not a great way off. +Mr. A. shot twice at the bull, as he stood there, and never touched a hair. +''T ain't no use trying,' he said, 'I can shoot at a paper target all +right, but when it comes to game it's a different matter.' If all the +hunters who go into Maine could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> shoot as well in the woods as they can at +a mark there wouldn't be a decent head left in the State.</p> + +<p>"Now, there is a sample of your city sportsmen. That man fired nine shots +at those moose and he never drew blood, and I could have hit the larger +majority of them with a brick. Yes, sir; if I'd had a good brick I could +have swatted any one of those animals in the short ribs."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i130.jpg" width="650" height="425" alt="COW MOOSE SWIMMING MOOSEHEAD LAKE + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE SWIMMING MOOSEHEAD LAKE<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p> + +<p>One of the most amusing incidents to others than the participants, and a +most painful one to them, was the experience of two young moose hunters +from far off Oregon, who tried their luck in the lower Dead River region of +Maine with a jack. The night selected was one of exceptional darkness, the +scene, a large bog about five miles from camp, and all conditions pointed +to a most successful first attempt at this most unsportsmanlike branch of +hunting. Supper over, with both eager for the fray, an early start was in +order, and soon the silent craft with its over-anxious freight left the +bank and started down stream. The intense stillness of an early summer +night was not broken save by an occasional muskrat hurrying to its home in +the bank or the ripples playing round the bow of their canoe. Mile after +mile was reeled off, when suddenly a loud splashing was heard dead ahead in +the stream. It was a simple matter for the man with the jack to light it, +but his experience with the instrument in question was limited, and he had +not discovered the slide<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> arrangement by which the light is quickly covered +without extinguishing it. The splashing continued, and both were undecided +whether to back out of their present position or light up and see what the +real cause of the disturbance was. The man in the stern suggested that the +lamp had better remain in the bottom of the canoe, while his friend in the +bow considered it far better to have a little light on the subject and +therefore be able to get their bearings. By scratching a match and +connecting it with the wick, the jack threw a strong light far ahead on the +silent waters. It required but a second to see a large dark object ten rods +ahead, waist deep in the water, and standing head on. Moose fever had +attacked both of the men, and they sat motionless<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;"> +<img src="images/i134.jpg" width="480" height="650" alt="TWO MAGNIFICENT TROPHIES OF THE CHASE. + +The one on the left formerly held the Maine Record." title="" /> +<span class="caption">TWO MAGNIFICENT TROPHIES OF THE CHASE.<br /> + +The one on the left formerly held the Maine Record.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span></p> + +<p>as the large black object cautiously moved nearer, wondering at each step +who was challenging him in his woodland retreat. By a superhuman effort the +stern man, in a voice scarcely above a whisper, told his friend to +extinguish the light, as the animal would be upon them in a short space of +time. The animal, which proved to be a large bull moose, decided that a +closer inspection of these trespassers was in order. He was now scarce a +rod away, and the light from the jack being exceedingly bright made him +somewhat bewildered, with the result that he charged the canoe. The water, +being shallow at this point, favored the men and prevented a possible +catastrophe. His lordship jumped in and the men jumped out of the canoe. +They<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> crawled to the bank and secreted themselves as best they could under +a neighboring tree, while the animal made short work of the frail craft he +had suddenly taken possession of. A reasonable time having expired, the +guides at the camp became somewhat anxious as to the safety of their +charges, and started in search. At the approach of another craft the moose +trotted off into the woods, leaving the thoroughly frightened sportsmen in +their undesirable position, where they were found and taken back to camp, +two sadder, and I might add, wiser Oregonians.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 270px;"> +<img src="images/i046.jpg" width="270" height="100" alt="" title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 265px;"> +<img src="images/i138.jpg" width="265" height="700" alt="YOUNG BULL MOOSE CAUGHT IN DEEP SNOW. + +(Northern Aroostook.) + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">YOUNG BULL MOOSE CAUGHT IN DEEP SNOW.<br /> + +(Northern Aroostook.)<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p> +<h3>A NOBLE ANIMAL—BUT 'TWAS JUNE.</h3> + + +<p>The waters of Black Pond, which but a scarce hour before had been lashed +into foam by a southwardly breeze, were silent. In the west the myriad +tints of a golden sunset were disappearing and the tiny stars were +beginning to peep through their blanket of blue. Against this majestic +picture, in the foreground, stood tall pines, rising like sentinels from +the bog in which for years they had found their growth. Far out on the lake +could be heard the solitary cry of a loon calling to his mate. What can be +more sublime, more entertaining, to the true sportsman than to be left +alone with nature in this paradise? A suggestion<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> from the guide that we +skirt the shore and see if there be any game in the pond brought hearty +approval from his employer, and seating myself in the bow, we were soon +under way. Such music the tiny ripples make as they frolic and dance at the +bow, as the craft glides noiselessly along, the whirr of many wings, and a +large flock of wild ducks are up and away at our approach. The moon is on +the rise, and lights this woodland paradise with its shining rays. Suddenly +a loud splashing was heard down the shore not many rods distant, and the +guide sheers off so as to approach the forest denizen from the side. Again +the splashing, and twenty rods distant can be seen a large moose, throwing +the water from off his sides, unconscious of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> +<img src="images/i142.jpg" width="650" height="647" alt="COW MOOSE ON SHORE OF ALLAGASH LAKE. + +Photographed from Life." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COW MOOSE ON SHORE OF ALLAGASH LAKE.<br /> + +Photographed from Life.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span></p> + +<p>any human intruders. Such a picture as he made, standing side on, fearless +and brave. The guide had stopped paddling, and the momentum gained was +carrying us nearer every second. Suddenly, coming into his line of vision, +he turned his head in our direction and showed us a most magnificent pair +of velvet-covered antlers. In his eye was the look of defiance, and, with +his great head lifted high in the air, the water still dripping from his +brown coat, he seemed to say, "Well, it's June, what are you going to do +about it?" And so it was. We left him, and slowly paddled back to camp, +wishing that the seasons for a scarce minute had changed,—that October had +been June, that June had been October,—and most of all that we could have +used a rifle.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Ablest Romance in Moose History is thus Described:</span></h3> + +<p>The man who tells it says he was hunting in the mountains of Nova Scotia, +when he saw a huge bull moose grazing on a patch of moss, a hundred yards +away. He up and fired but when the smoke had cleared away, there stood the +moose grazing as before.</p> + +<p>Again he fired, and again he was chagrined to see that the moose didn't +seem to mind it. A third shot, and the moose disappeared. Much excited, the +hunter ran to the moss patch, and there, on the further slope, lay three +dead moose. Pretty risky story to tell in Maine.</p> + +<h4>THE END.</h4> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the +Moose and Illustrations from Life, by Burt Jones + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HABITS, HAUNTS, ANECDOTES OF MOOSE *** + +***** This file should be named 37151-h.htm or 37151-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/7/1/5/37151/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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D. + +This volume is respectfully dedicated. + + +Copyrighted, 1901, +By +CHARLES ALBERT JONES. + +Press of +ALFRED MUDGE & SON, +Boston. + + +Edition de Luxe. + +ONE THOUSAND SIGNED COPIES. + +No. 812 + +Signed by Burt Jones + + +[Illustration: YOUNG BULL MOOSE NEAR RUSSELL POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + + + + +NOTE TO THE READER. + + +I wish to extend to the following well-known sportsmen my sincere thanks +for their kindness in contributing to the illustrated section of this +volume: Mr. G. E. Harrison, of the New York Press Club; Dr. O. H. Stevens, +Marlboro, Mass.; Messrs. Harry L. and Louis O. Tilton, Newton, Mass.; Mr. +George M. Houghton, Bangor, Maine; and Mr. John E. Barney, Canaan, N. H., +who secured the photographs facing pages 55, 61, 83, and 127, the one +opposite page 55 deserving special mention, as, in my estimation, it is the +finest photograph of live cow moose and calves in existence. + +The entire collection is copyrighted, and any infringement on the same will +be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +"This is the forest primeval." "It is my home." So spoke the moose. Suffice +it is to say, that a prize trophy over one's fireplace is an object to be +admired by one and all. It brings you back to a last hunting trip, and well +do you remember, as you gaze thereon, what a chase it had led you in life, +through bog and alder swamp, until at last an opportunity presented itself +whereby the deadly missile from your rifle sends him to his death. As the +blue rings of smoke from your brier pipe float up and away, you are carried +in thought to the North Woods wherein he roamed. There he lived, a monarch +of all he surveyed. The excitement of the chase, while it is on, knows no +bounds, but at the death it subsides, and you return to civilization to +recall the event only when the time arrives that another pilgrimage to the +happy hunting grounds is in order. On the other hand, you find him as a +subject for your camera. An excellent one, too. Exiled in his domain for a +few weeks and a wealth of enjoyment is yours, as, during the long winter +evenings, you may open your album and see him before you as he was in +life. The smoke from the same pipe will float up and away, and you can for +a moment realize what a happy pastime you have enjoyed while a guest of +Dame Nature in the Haunts of the Moose. + + + + +TO HIS LORDSHIP. + + + "Deep in the silent forest, where oft I've chanced to roam, + The monarch moose inhabits, it is his woodland home; + By silent lake at morning, by logan, calm at night, + Majestic stands his lordship, stands motionless in sight. + The north wind to him is music, the tall pines are his friends, + The rivers madly rushing, o'er the rocks and round the bends, + Seems to him a heavenly blessing, seems to him the work above + Of a kind and thoughtful Father, and His beings He doth love." + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN BLACK POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + + + + +CHAPTER I. + + HABITS AND HAUNTS. SECTIONS WHERE FOUND. STILL HUNTING. + CALLING. POSSIBLE EXTERMINATION. + + +Throughout the vast depths of the northern forests, bordered by the virgin +growth of a trackless wilderness, often with an imperial fringe of +timber-crowned hills, lives the moose. He is the largest, as well as the +most highly prized, live game animal extant to-day on the American +continent. Formerly, this species was very abundant throughout the region +of country extending from the wilds of Northern Maine westward through the +wilderness bordering on the Great Lakes and far beyond; but great havoc has +been wrought, especially during the past twenty-five years, in the supply +of this variety of game. + +Comparatively few are killed annually in the United States, and those +mostly within the limits of Northern Maine and the States of the far +Northwest, where the pernicious activity of the professional hunters and +self-styled sportsmen, who kill the large beasts during the prevalance of +deep snows, will, if not checked, bring the moose into the list of extinct +species of American game before the close of another decade. + +No animal is so persistently hunted, and when killed, none considered so +grand a trophy as his lordship. Owing to the comparatively small section of +this country that he inhabits they are few in number, the Maine and +Canadian wildernesses sheltering by far more moose than any other section. +What few specimens found in far-off Alaska are world beaters in regard to +size of body and spread of antlers, one having been shot in that territory +whose horns measured over eight feet from tip to tip. + +The best breeding and feeding grounds are along the Canadian border, while +favorite localities for the sportsmen are in the vicinity of lakes, ponds, +and dead waters throughout the aforementioned sections. + +In appearance the moose is large and awkward; its huge head and broad +nose, combined with its short, thick neck, giving it a rather grotesque +appearance. In color, he is brown, while his legs and belly are grayish. +His mane is almost black, and at any approaching danger rises upward, +making him a most formidable foe to look upon. + +The moose travels over the ground in a swinging trot, exhibiting remarkable +speed. This style of locomotion is adopted only when the animal is suddenly +started. If the presence of man is detected, while the hunter is yet some +distance away, the moose moves off with considerable caution, often +selecting a course which the follower can pursue only with the greatest +difficulty. + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE ON BLACK POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +The endurance of the animal is such that only the hardiest of hunters can +hope to overtake him in a stern chase when he has once become alarmed. The +broad, palmate antlers are a distinguishing feature, and happy is the +hunter who can boast the possession of a head as a trophy taken from an +animal killed by himself. While few are successful in this respect the +greater majority must be content with perhaps a view of his lordship at a +distance. + +Still hunting, or stalking the moose in his native wilds, is a branch of +sport successfully followed by none except the skilled woodsmen and hardy +hunter. The fatigue and countless obstacles to be met with are such that +comparatively few amateur sportsmen attempt it. More frequently the animal +is driven to the water by the guides and woodsmen, or attracted to such +localities by calling. + +In Northern Maine and in the Canadian Provinces, the moose is often hunted +during early winter by pursuing him on snow-shoes. Jacking is often +effectively followed in mid-summer, along the lakes and rivers. This method +is considered unsportsmanlike by those who possess the requisite skill and +endurance to adopt the style of still hunting. + +In size and weight he exceeds that of the horse, specimens having been shot +that weighed over twelve hundred pounds and stood seven and one-half feet +to the shoulder. + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE IN HARRINGTON LAKE. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +In the summer he is to be seen feeding in and near the streams on the lily +roots, of which he is exceedingly fond. This is the time of year that he is +easily approached from a canoe as he stands, with head submerged, eating +that dainty morsel. The black flies, at this season, are also to a great +extent responsible for his taking to the water, as any of my readers who +have had a few of these insects on them at one time usually feel disposed +to follow his example in their endeavor to rid themselves of this pest. + +As winter approaches he leaves the lakes and streams, forming a yard or +runway by passing to and fro, beating a track, and keeping the snow packed +down hard. These runways are always located where there is good feed to be +had from young hardwood trees, such as the moosewood (a species of ash), +also poplar, birch, and mosses near at hand. He does not feed from the +ground, and, owing to the great height of his forelegs, he can reach from +eight to ten feet to secure his food. Nor are all these twigs tender, for +his lordship makes short work of biting off a sapling an inch through if it +is to his liking. + +Moose bring forth their young in May. Two calves are born, as a rule, +though sometimes not more than one. The calf stays with the mother at least +a year, and often two. While the cow moose is a timid animal, she is brave +in defending her young. A story told by a trustworthy Indian guide +illustrates this point. + +While paddling on Chesuncook Lake, one day, the guide saw a cow moose and +a calf come down the bank and enter the water. He watched them until they +had waded some distance from shore, when his attention was arrested by +another animal coming out of the woods near them. It was a black bear. The +bear was not seen by the cow. He slipped easily into the water and waded +towards the cow and calf. Presently he got beyond his depth, his legs being +much shorter than even a calf moose's, and therefore had to swim. He swam +directly for the calf, and was rapidly nearing it when the cow saw him. The +ungainly beast turned with remarkable quickness towards the bear, whom she +attacked with her fore feet. Three or four sharp jabs with her pointed +hoofs was enough to insure the protection of her offspring, with whom she +soon left the water. The bear appeared to be _hors de combat_, and the +guide paddled up to him, to find that his back had been broken by the +powerful blows of the cow. The Indian dispatched the bear with his knife +and saved the pelt. + +In size and strength the bull moose is probably the equal of any antlered +animal that ever lived, one having been shot in Maine with a spread of over +six feet. He sheds these splendid antlers every winter, generally in +January. They are found sometimes by woodsmen, but usually are gnawed and +eaten up by small animals as soon as dropped, as they have a salty flavor +that makes them palatable to squirrels, sable, and the like. + +Owing to the color of his coat, it is hard to detect a moose sometimes in +"black growth," that is, spruce or hemlock, for his upper part is brownish +black, and his legs tone off into gray or yellowish white. The shanks are +esteemed by residents of the woods country for making boots or "shoepacks," +the hair being left on and turned outward. Such foot covering lasts +indefinitely and sheds water perfectly. The hoof is peculiarly flexible, +and divided farther, for example, than in the case of the ox. This enables +him to walk easily on slippery surfaces, and through bogs, by spreading the +hoofs. It is said that he can pass through a swamp where a man would become +foundered, while the speed with which he passes over moss-grown boulders, +or masses of blown-down trees, is remarkable. + +It is most discouraging, after tracking your game for hours at a time, to +finally have to give it up on account of darkness setting in. Lighting your +pipe, you retrace your steps to camp and await the coming of the morrow, +when the routine of the previous day is gone over. It is the quiet, careful +man who succeeds in tracking, as the breaking of a twig or the brushing of +one's coat against a tree will jump your game, and in his fright he travels +many miles before stopping. + +He is an exceptionally keen-scented animal, and mark you well as to the +general direction of the wind before leaving camp, as to work along with it +is fatal. Miles before you have seen him he smells you and immediately +increases the distance from his would-be foe. + +[Illustration: TWIN MOOSE CALVES, THREE DAYS OLD. + +(Taken at the Headwaters of the Liverpool River, Nova Scotia.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +When the rutting season is at its height, along about the first of October, +and the days warm, another method of moose-hunting is brought into +play,--that of imitating the call of the cow with a birch horn about +eighteen inches in length. There are many expert moose-callers in Maine and +the Canadian Provinces, though they have by no means a monopoly of this +accomplishment. The sound is most peculiar, and can only be acquired by +long practice. The most expert callers are those who have taken lessons +from nature,--that is, have been close to a female moose when she was +calling the male. At least one in three of the Maine guides can call +moose. With his birch horn, and seated beside some lake on a quiet evening, +he sends back into the forest or across some shallow logan the weird +"woo-oo-oo, woo-woo-oo" of the cow moose calling the bull. If there be a +bull within hearing he will respond with a deep grunt. He will then tear +along through the woods in the direction of the call, and perhaps splash +out with a great noise into the shallow water where he expects to find a +mate answering his amorous advances. + +Ordinarily the moose is a silent animal, being very careful not to make a +noise. Old guides have said that in spite of his great spread of horns he +will pass quietly through a thick growth. Generally, if seen in summer at +the edge of a lake or stream, he slips noiselessly into the woods, but when +the rutting season begins he casts his discretion to the winds and responds +to the call of the cow with noisy disregard of consequences. He is also +quarrelsome at such times, and should another bull happen to trespass on +what he considers his territory there may be trouble. The rutting season is +generally over by the first week in October, and the bulls will not answer +the calls after that, unless the weather should hold very warm. Most guides +claim that during the rutting season the bulls have a wide range, but that +the cows remain in one neighborhood. + +While yarded moose are very methodical in their habits: they have, +however, a single eye to one object, the detection of any intruder, +therefore it is only by a knowledge of their habits that they can be +approached by the hunter. It is their keen sense of hearing and smell that +are to be guarded against, for as a rule, when the animal can see the +hunter, he can also see the moose, and his capture becomes simply a +question of marksmanship. It is certainly a unique sport and has few +successful aspirants. + +Of the two, still hunting is usually the more successful and the greater +number of moose are secured in that way. In the late fall, the coming of +the first snow doubles one's chances of success as every step of the animal +is shown. In tracking he usually goes through the worst places possible for +him to find, which adds to one's discomfort and lessens one's chances of a +shot. + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE SWIMMING MUSQUOCOOK LAKE. + +(St. John Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +Nature has bestowed upon him methods of passing through underbrush or +blowdowns silently where a man in following makes a noise ten times as +loud. The very silence of the forest is noisy. The wind whistling through +the tree-tops, the bushes grating against one another, both contribute to +make noise. + +Those of my readers who have heard the low, weird grunt of the bull moose, +and have listened to the music of the crashing of the underbrush as he +forces his way through in answer to the melancholy and drawn-out bellow of +the cow, will understand full well when I say that it cannot be described, +but must be heard to be appreciated, and is certainly worth all the +hardships it entails to be listened to only once. + +I remember well of a time that my guide called from the edge of a lake at +sunset, and received an answer from a large bull on a mountain a mile or +two away, where we could hear him coming nearer and nearer as the moments +wore on. After a half hour had elapsed he had reached the other side of the +lake, and was so close that we did not dare to repeat the call for fear he +would detect the artificial from the natural. He did not venture nearer, +and as it was too dark to see him across the lake, we returned to camp, but +that fifteen minutes will live long in my memory. + +To hunt moose successfully one must "rough it," and sleep without a fire, +as the best time to hunt is at sunset and daylight, and with their keen +sight and scent a fire means no moose. + +In his visits to the Maine woods half a century ago, Thoreau made copious +notes about the moose, which was then slaughtered indiscriminately, by +Indians and others, for their hides. This slaughter, which could not be +called hunting, shocked the gentle naturalist from Concord, who made the +prediction that "the moose will, perhaps, some day become extinct, and +exist only as a fossil relic." This may be true, but the animal has +judicial friends, and so long as they protect him, it does not appear as if +the moose could become extinct from slaughter. Indeed, it is claimed that +as many if not more moose are to be found now than fifty years ago. + +[Illustration: LARGE BULL MOOSE ON MUD POND BROOK. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life. Time exposure.] + + + + +CHAPTER II. + + THE PROVINCIAL MOOSE. A BATTLE FOR SUPREMACY. LUCK AND + ILL-LUCK. THE JUDGE AND THE BANKER. + + +One of the greatest moose regions in the world is that portion of land +drained by the tributaries of the St. John, Miramichi, and Restigouche +rivers. It is true that portions of Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Labrador are +roamed over by herds of these magnificent animals, but the best specimens +of the race are found within the compass of Eastern New Brunswick. + +It is a country of hill and dale, cedar swamps, hardwood ridges, and +barrens, where the blueberry, the hackmatack, and here and there stunted +tamaracks break the general sweep of waste country. Along these barrens the +moose loves to roam. Here he finds the moss of which he is so fond, and +here, too, he gets the young shoots of various shrubs on which he feeds. He +can also keep a weather eye on the approach of danger, and as he feeds, he +occasionally throws his massive head in the air, and takes a sudden and +piercing glance around the landscape. If satisfied, he gives a short grunt +of evident pleasure and proceeds with his feeding. + +The best horns are secured in the months of late October, November, and +early December. In January the horn begins to get soft, and soon falls off. +It is said by hunters that the largest animals lose their antlers weeks +earlier than the younger bulls. It is also claimed that the natural color +of the moose-horn is white; that this is the color when the velvet comes +off, but that contact with the trees, and rubbing against the +bark--something which the moose apparently delights in--causes the horn to +take that pretty shade of antique oak. There is all the difference in the +world in horns. Some have a multitude of points; some have wider webs; some +have stouter horn stems; some set more gracefully on the skull; some lie +more horizontally than others; so that when the term a "choice head" is +used it means that nature has given the bull all the beauty of antlers in +profusion. + +With far greater agility and cunning than any other animal of its weight, +the moose is a formidable opponent when attacked. Some narrow escapes have +been made by hunters using the old cap gun, but now with the breech-loader +the speed that guarantees security is given. + +I have seen a great curiosity in the form of the horns of two moose +inextricably interlocked. The story these horns tell is that a duel to the +death had taken place in a forest glade between a bull moose of eight +hundred pounds weight and a younger one of perhaps four hundred pounds. The +larger had an antler spread of three feet eight inches, the smaller, that +of three feet. In the shock of the conflict, the horns of the younger had +fitted snugly into the many branches of the other set of antlers, and the +heads were as solidly and as perfectly fastened together as if bolted with +iron. + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE, WITH CALVES, SWIMMING MUD POND. + +(West Branch Waters.)] + +That the fight had been long and stubborn the horns showed. Where they had +come together they had been rubbed and worn to the depth of half an inch. + +The younger had died first, whether from exhaustion, or a broken neck, or +starvation, is not apparent, but the condition of the flesh when found +showed that he had lost the fight; and the victor did not long survive. +Fastened to his dead competitor he could not feed with this weight of four +hundred pounds attached to him, and must have succumbed to starvation. A +similar case is reported, and is thus described:-- + +"No mortal eye witnessed what must have been a prolonged and fearful +contest; but when their bodies were found in the lake the story of what had +taken place was easily understood. The ground for some distance from the +lake was torn and trampled where the ferocious animals had charged upon +each other, and when the bodies were examined the antlers were found to be +so firmly interlocked that it was impossible to separate them. In order to +secure one good pair the finder sawed the other pair away, it not occurring +to him at the time that the interlocked antlers would be of considerably +more value than many pairs in the ordinary condition. In this instance it +was evident that the stronger had gone to his death because of his +strength. One of the two was much stronger than the other, and under +ordinary circumstances this would have secured him the victory. As it was, +the advantage was fatal. In rushing at each other, the antlers of the two +locked together, and it was then that the larger moose thought he had the +smaller one at his mercy. So he had, as far as the ability to push him +about and force him back was concerned, but when the larger animal forced +the smaller into the lake, both were indeed in a common peril and shared a +common fate." + +Moose are not secured in a day. In fact, the greater majority of sportsmen +require several trips to the woods to assure them success. There are +exceptions to this rule, however. + +I recall the case of a sportsman who went into the wilderness for a +two-weeks stay with his wife, and brought down a moose the first day out. +He had no thought of getting one when he started, but it being his wife's +birthday, he indulged in a dream and told her that she would be presented +with a pair of moose antlers by him for a birthday present. This naturally +pleased her ladyship, and her liege lord took his gun, his guide and canoe, +and started out to try to fulfil his promise. + +[Illustration: SPIKE-HORN BULL SWIMMING MUD POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +When the canoe emerged from the stream into the pond the hunter and guide +were surprised enough to see, at the edge, in shallow water, a large bull +moose. The animal was up to his back feeding on the lily roots, splashing +his great head about, and having no fear, in his lonely retreat, of being +interrupted by hunters. The wind, being in the right direction, gave the +men an advantage, as the moose could not scent them. The guide approached +cautiously, never taking his paddle from the water as he propelled the +light craft along. + +Suddenly the moose heard something, perhaps the gentle splash of water +against the canoe, that made him look around. For a second he gazed +silently at the two men sitting in the little craft, now scarcely a hundred +yards away. Then he swung his great body slowly around (as there was soft +mud on the pond bottom, and he could not make way swiftly in it) and +started for the bank. The hunter held his fire, fingering his gun-lock +nervously, until the moose had reached firm ground. It would not have done +to shoot him in the mire, for, the water being shallow, half a dozen men +could not have extracted the body; but with the first step the great beast +(with mud and water dripping from his body) took upon the shore, a bullet +pierced him in the neck. Then there was a succession of shots, and little +jets of blood spurted out on the dark brown coat of the forest giant, who +by this time was making rapid way along the rocky shore of the pond. A +dense cedar swamp lay inland from the shore, and into it the wounded moose +did not dare to plunge. He must retreat under fire, like a general with the +enemy on one side and a river on the other. + +At last he disappeared in a thicket. The hunters had gone ashore and were +after him, coming up just as he sank to earth. A bullet behind the ear +discharged his debt to nature. + +That night a noble head adorned the camp of the hunter, who had +unexpectedly made good a promise his wife never expected him to fulfil. + +Contrast this experience with another I have in mind, and the two sides of +moose hunting will be illustrated. For three seasons a good hunter from a +Massachusetts town had gone into Maine to get a moose, and three times he +had returned home empty handed. He scorned to shoot deer. He hardly would +have brought down a bear had one presented himself to be shot. He wanted +moose. It was a hard country for hunting, a place of boulders and blowdowns +and stumps,--a desolate waste. He saw moose tracks, and he was there to +follow them, which he did long and wearily, for a day, and at night he +slept in an abandoned camp. Again on the next day he followed them, seeing +them sometimes on the soft, green moss, again at the side of a stream, or +in some boggy place. At times they were lost on a rocky slope, or in a +region of hard ground. There was no snow to aid the hunter, and the +tracking of moose in such a country without it called for the best traits +of the seasoned sportsman,--patience and endurance. + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN DEEP SNOW. + +Taken during January, near Eagle Lake. + +Photographed from Life.] + +The trail led uphill at last, and after following it up the base of a +mountain, amid scrub growth and blowdowns, the hunter was rewarded by +seeing at long range a large bull. The moose scented the hunter almost as +soon as sighted, and stood not upon the order of his going but sought a +lower level. It was at this juncture that the resource of the experienced +hunter came in. He did not stand and watch the animal disappear. Not he! +Sending along a lead missile to announce his intentions, he set out in hot +pursuit. There began such a chase as hunters seldom engage in. The moose +had an advantage over the man, for he could take long leaps over +depressions in the ground, and over fallen trees and big rocks. The hunter +had to jump, run, slide, and bound along as best he could. He saw nothing +but the moose, and he saw him only as one sees an express train +disappearing in a fog. Whenever, by some change in the course of the +animal, or a favorable turn in the ground, a shot was offered, the hunter +fired; then he would pump another cartridge into the chamber of his rifle, +and resume the pace. + +Thus tearing at break-neck speed down a rough mountain side, the sportsman, +followed by his puffing guide, gradually came up to the moose. The bullets +had taken effect, though not in a vital part, and the animal was weakening. +But moose and hunter plunged on, through woods and under brush that grew +at the bottom of the mountain, and at last, after what seemed a chase of a +dozen miles, but which in reality might have been three, the hunter came +into full sight of his anticipated prize in a clearing. This time the +animal was in a position for a telling shot, which was sped with good aim, +and brought the great beast to his knees. Another ended his career, and the +hunter, out of breath, sat down to wipe his brow. He had lost his hat and +mittens in the chase, his clothing was torn, and he was battered and +bruised. This counted for nothing. He had brought down his moose after four +seasons' work. It was necessary to "swamp" a road, that is, cut one through +the woods, for a mile to get the carcass to a logging road over which it +could be hauled to the river. As the first snow of the season fell that +night the moose was brought out and it was comparatively easy work to get +him to the railroad station on the next day. + +One more moose story may not be amiss. It has to do with a party of +sportsmen, consisting of a judge and a banker, who went into a famous moose +country to try their luck. They fired but one round during their stay in +the woods, and with a guide brought down in that one volley three large +bull moose. The story is fully vouched for and the heads of two of the +bulls may now be seen in an Aroostook town. + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE ON BLACK POND. (West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +These two hunters, like the first one mentioned, did not expect to find +moose. They thought luck might take a turn in their favor, but were ready +to sustain themselves in hope deferred if it did not. + +The judge and the banker went into the woods from a little settlement on +the Aroostook River. They travelled a good sixty miles by horse-sled in the +snow before reaching the place where they were to engage guides. It was +another twenty-five miles to the camp where they put up on their first +night out, a "depot" camp, where lumber crews going in and out stopped to +rest and sleep. + +On the morning after their arrival the two hunters set out in the snow with +their guide to look for moose signs. They walked half a dozen miles without +finding any, and, getting tired, went back to camp, leaving the guide to +pursue the quest, and let them know when he came up to a moose. This was +not thoroughly sportsmanlike, they knew, but they were a pair of worthy +men, past the meridian of life, and they did not stand on the ethics of the +hunt. + +That night the guide returned and told them he knew where there was a yard +of moose. Next morning, in the sharp air of a snappy-cold dawn, they set +out to find the moose, and had walked but a few miles when tracks were +found in the snow. Then, with the guide leading them, stopping as he went +to avoid low branches laden with snow that hung across their way, or +bending aside some twig to avoid noise, they half walked, half crawled for +upwards of a mile. + +They saw moose signs that seemed to them good. At last the guide held up a +warning hand, and proceeded more slowly than formerly. + +After many cranings of his neck and changes of position, he drew aside a +branch and told his followers by signs to look in the direction he +indicated with his snow-covered mitten. They looked, but could see nothing +special at first. The guide patiently pointed out to them a clump of bushes +against which he could see the heads of two moose. The animals were lying +down, with their heads to the wind, as is always their custom. The hunters +were for firing precipitately, but their ardor, so quickly aroused, was +dampened by the guide, who motioned them to wait. There was a good wind +blowing, and it came from the moose to the men. Moreover, it made a noise +in the trees, and whispering was therefore safe among the hunters crouched +in the snow. The guide informed them that there were three moose in the +bunch. The judge and the banker could see but two, and these presented as +fair a mark as ever man found for rifle. + +When the word was given the two men fired, also the guide. There was a +movement among the moose, and the hunters rushed forward to see the +execution they had wrought. It was startling. There in the snow, still +kicking and quivering, lay three large moose. To the worthy judge and +banker they looked as big as oxen. All three were in the throes of death. + +[Illustration: COW AND CALF MOOSE LEAVING THE WATER. (Lobster Lake.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +There was great rejoicing in the depot camp that night. The two friends +thought themselves favored by the gods of the chase beyond their deserts. +The story of the great hunt was soon current in the community in which the +hunters lived. The version of it given here, with slight variations, is +that of one of the principals in the episode. + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE AND CALVES SWIMMING MUD POND. + +(West Branch Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + + + + +CHAPTER III. + + ANECDOTES OF THE MOOSE. A LARGE BULL IN THREE HOURS. + MOOSE WILL ANSWER A CALL. TWO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. + FROM A GUIDE'S STANDPOINT. CRACK SHOTS. A JACK, A + MOOSE, AN ACCIDENT. A NOBLE ANIMAL--BUT 'T WAS JUNE. + THE ABLEST ROMANCE IN MOOSE HISTORY. + + +Picture a hungry group at supper around the camp-fire as night shuts down, +when the noisy jest and laughter are suddenly interrupted by your guide. +Listen! There it is again from over the lake,--the fierce challenge of the +bull and the horn-like note of the cow! I'll not try to record the many +exciting incidents of those glorious morning and evening watches; how this +one saw his lordship in broad daylight swagger across the open, just out of +rifle range; how that one, in the darkness of the homeward trail, called a +jealous bull so near that he could hear him breathe ere the tell-tale human +scent turned his course; or how another stalked a cow moose by mistake, and +watched her some time, vainly hoping her lord would call; for every hunter +knows of these slips, making success more pleasant when it is yours. + +I must tell you, however, of that still October morning, of the faint mist +rising from the lake, of the bright hills so fairly mirrored by the clear +waters, and of the rising sun so dazzling on the mist and the water. +Suddenly the guide and I drop the half-prepared breakfast and take to the +canoe in haste. We had heard that note of notes--the angry challenge of a +bull moose. The remembrance of that morning brings back the sound as I +heard it a few miles away over the hills. Watch how the guide is carefully +following the course of the sound. We soon reach the other side. There he +is, head on! Wait! he may give a better shot. No! he sees the canoe. Shoot +now or he will be gone! Bang! A miss, for he did not flinch! The smoke +hides him! Bang! Bang! The guide has fired, too, but the smoke hampers +both. There he goes, crashing through the thicket! Let's give him another +for luck! He certainly was hard hit, and in that event it was best to let +him go, for after a short period of time he would lie down, become stiff, +and die. We paddled back to camp, finished breakfast, and in about three +hours returned to the place from whence he had entered the woods, and there +we found him, cold in death. He was a monster! A wealth of black, glossy +hair, a splendid bell, and massive antlers, fit to adorn any mantel. + +[Illustration: _Under full head of steam_ + + _A Summer + Episode in the + Life of a young + Bull Moose_ + +_Nearing terra firma_ + +Photographed from Life.] + +Three days later another fine bull fell to my party. Just at sunset he was +called out from across a pond, and strolled with that majestic woodland +swagger through the shallow water. The first shot so confused him that he +turned and came directly towards us, but soon veered off. At a closer range +this might have been interpreted as a fierce charge of the dying bull, +though it was merely an aimless start of surprise. He fell, with the ball +behind his shoulder, and we found him quite dead. It was a fatal one, +though it failed to stop him until he had gone fifty yards. + +There was one section I had not visited, and this was to the east, in the +direction of the brook which had proven too small for floating logs. So it +was that after pulling the cabin door to, I made tracks toward the stream, +which I knew must be asleep under four or five inches of ice and two feet +of snow. + +[Illustration: Off for t'other side + +Safe ashore + +What's that? + +Bound inland + +Photographed from Life.] + +In half an hour's time I had reached the bank and crossed over, keeping +close to it all the time. I had not gone far beyond the ravine-like +formation with the brook hugging its lowest point, when there were +unmistakable evidences of large game. Moose it was. Tracks as large as a +cow, great rents in the snow crust, through which the brown earth showed in +spots; these were some of the traces. I went back across the ravine and +proceeded up-stream, following the east bank; saw several fresh tracks, but +they were cows, and along in the afternoon, while travelling up an old +brook, I saw the imprints of a large bull, and they were big ones, together +with a cow and calf. It did not take me long to decide what to do, and as +they followed the brook I knew that they had not heard me. The wind was +favorable and they were working up into it. Finally they left the brook +and that necessitated more caution on my part. I had covered about half a +mile and I heard the cow calling. Suddenly she came into view. I worked up +to within forty yards of her in hopes to find the bull, but ran into the +calf, a two-year-old; luckily he did not see me. Things were getting +interesting, with a moose on my left and another in front of me. Working my +way cautiously along I heard the bull in the thick growth. He was so +covered that I could hardly see him. By careful inspection, one antler and +part of his shoulder showed. Raising my rifle I fired, at which he stepped +into the clearing and stood defiant. What a noble looking fellow he was, +and a monster in size as he stood there shaking his head, blood running +from his mouth and nostrils. Once again I fired. As the last one struck he +went down, the shot breaking his shoulder blade--another victim of the +30-30. + +The experience of a young New Yorker will serve to exemplify both the +uncertainty of moose calling and the manner in which it is prosecuted. He +was hunting in the Bear River woods, accompanied by one of the most expert +guides of that section. Two nights of calling proved fruitless. The +sportsman frankly told his guide he had no faith in it, and that he did not +believe a moose would come to the call of a man. This considerably ruffled +the guide's conceit, and he resolved, if possible, to make a lasting +impression to the contrary on the mind of his employer. That afternoon an +ideal place for calling was chosen. The tent was pitched beside a giant +boulder, on one side of which a narrow, open bog stretched away between +wooded banks, and on the other a sort of natural park extended to the foot +of a ridge covered with hard wood. The guide exacted the promise that his +companion would not shoot until he gave the word. All arrangements being +complete, as the sun was nearing the western horizon, the guide climbed to +the top of the boulder and sounded the call. + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE. + +Photographed from Life.] + +Almost immediately, from the ridge, about two miles away, came the +deep-voiced answer of an old bull. A few minutes sufficed to show that he +was coming at a rapid pace. The guide continued to call at regular +intervals, and in a few minutes another answer was heard far down the bog, +though this time from a smaller moose. A few seconds later brought a reply +from a third, in another direction. The sport was getting exciting. The +guide came down from his perch on the rock and stationed his employer and +himself behind a smaller boulder, over which it was possible to look while +lying on the ground. The guide thought the young moose would not come up +for fear of the larger ones, and of course the one he wanted was the +monster that had first answered. In that, however, he was disappointed. The +distance was considerable, and while the big bull was still a long way off +he was interrupted and turned from his course by another party of +hunters. The little one on the bog ceased to answer, but the large one that +had started last was, when the sun went down, already quite near, and +coming steadily along. When the moose was about breaking cover the guide +climbed partly up the big rock and noted the direction from which he was +coming, satisfying himself the game would appear on the side of the boulder +on which they were stationed. Another call, and the bull's hoofs were heard +beating the firm ground as he trotted up the slope toward the men. In full +view of the hunters, and about ten yards from them, grew a bunch of sapling +birches. There the moose paused and began a furious onslaught with his +antlers. Having tired of that, he turned toward the hunters, and going +down on his knees plowed his horns along the ground some distance, tossing +them, well loaded with vines, moss, and earth. With a snort, he shook these +from his head, the dirt falling on and around the two men lying behind the +rock. The city man about that time was enjoying his first acute attack of +moose fever. His teeth fairly chattered, and the guide had to grip his +rifle barrel to prevent it from rattling against the rock. Again the moose +came on and stood with his broadside toward them, not more than twelve feet +from the muzzle of the rifle. That was about as close quarters as the guide +cared for on his own account, so he gave the word to fire. The moose went +down with the shot, but immediately rose to his feet again. Again the +rifle spoke, and down he went, only to rise again. The third shot, however, +dropped him for the last time. Any of them would have proved fatal, but the +moose was too close for the men to take any chances. + +The sportsman was convinced a moose would come at a man's call, and was so +excited over the fact that he slept none on that night. + +I recall an experience of mine with an old bull on Pockwockamus Dead Water +(from my note book), Oct. 21, 1899. + +I had gone only a few steps when I heard the splashing of a moose around +the bend of the stream ahead. There was a stretch of sand that led to an +island for which I made. There I concealed myself in the brush. I could +hear the big fellow wading along and ploughing through the reeds. I first +saw his antlers above the brush, and then his majestic head appeared. That +was all he would show, as he suspected a hidden foe and was on the lookout +for any apparent danger. For distance, he was about one hundred yards from +me and close inshore. Finally an opportunity presented itself, and I raised +my rifle and let go through the leaves where his neck should be. At the +report he made a quick turn and disappeared in the thick growth. I dashed +through the water, which was only about three feet deep, up the opposite +bank, and pushed my way through the bushes to where I had last seen him. +There he lay. My shot was fatal. As I appeared he snorted at me and tried +to regain his feet, but his efforts were ineffectual. I then put him out of +his misery with a shot through the heart. + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE IN UMSASKIS LAKE. + +Photographed from Life.] + +Still another is worthy of mention. + +At one time the guide and myself were coming back to camp, just about dusk, +after a long tramp, and were within sight of the tents, when we heard a +moose off to the right and close to the trail. The guide tried to coax him +out of the thicket by gently sounding the birch horn, which he had with +him. The moose turned with a crash and ran towards us, grunting all the +time. We were crouched behind a pile of birch brush. The big fellow kept +coming, until it seemed as if he might at any moment jump over the brush +pile and appear before us. It was too dark to shoot, so I slightly changed +my position, thinking I might see the moose outlined against the sky. Just +as I moved, the moose turned, ran some distance back into the woods and +stopped, grunting again as if he was not certain about it all; but he was +soon off, this time silently. + +The next morning I was out early examining the tracks, and found it only +sixteen paces from where we were behind the brush pile to where his +lordship had been standing. I could see where he had barked the trees with +his antlers when he was first frightened. + +It is fortunate for some of the sportsmen who journey to the north woods +after big game in the fall that their guides live so far away, otherwise +their reputation might suffer. This concerns both their personal traits and +their ability as hunters. Camp life brings out a man's true qualities. The +experience of a sportsman during his first attempt to lure a moose from his +home in the forest is related as follows:-- + +One of the party tried his luck at calling. He left the guide at the camp. +Quietly hiding among some shrubs, he gave a gentle but long-drawn-out call +and waited results. Hardly had the notes died away than there was a +tremendous crash, the alders parted, and the head of a large bull moose +appeared in the leafy frame within ten feet of the hunter. This abrupt +entrance dumfounded the sportsman whose confusion and consternation were +pretty evenly balanced at a moment when he needed his wits. Who was the +more frightened it was hard to tell. At any rate the caller returned to +camp posthaste minus his gun, horn, and hat, and with an expression that +was indeed pitiable. + +A guide, who had a well-known preacher in the woods for a short time one +season, refused to take him the following year. On being asked the reason +he said:-- + +"That man cares only for himself and thinks his guide can be wound up with +a key to work like a machine. He may be good enough to preach the Gospel, +but he ain't good enough for me to guide." + +[Illustration: YOUNG BULL AND COW MOOSE SWIMMING. + +(Lobster Lake.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +Many are the stories told by the guides about the unsuccessful sportsmen +who lack the moral courage to go home empty-handed. So accustomed have the +guides become to this sort of thing that they take it for granted, unless +instructed to the contrary, that they are to kill the game their employer +is to take home with him, provided he does not meet with success in the +early part of the hunt. + +Another guide has to say of visiting sportsmen: "Some of them shoot all +right, of course, but others are regular Spaniards. I had a fellow up this +way last fall that thought he was death on anything walking on four legs, +and that his gun was the best shooting tool ever turned out of a gun +factory. I paddled him right up to a bull moose standing in the water one +day, and he fired every shot in his magazine at it without rumpling a hair. + +"He didn't know enough to stop pumping the lever when all his shells were +gone, and just about then I chipped in with my rifle and put a ball through +the moose's shoulder that dropped him handy to the bank. The sportsman was +in the act of pulling the trigger of his empty gun, when he saw the moose +fall, and he didn't for a moment doubt but what he had killed him. He felt +so good that he rose right up in the canoe and yelled, and the next thing I +knew the canoe kind of slid out from under us and over we went into four +feet of mud and water." + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN CARIBOU LAKE. + +Photographed from Life.] + +A New York sportsman had his guide call a moose into the East Branch +thoroughfare one evening just before dark, and the guide tells of his +difficulty in pointing him out to the sportsman, who happened to be +nearsighted. The moose walked right out into the water away from the +concealment of the bushes and stopped. The guide nudged the sportsman and +whispered to shoot. + +"Shoot what?" said the sportsman in a louder tone than was prudent under +the circumstances. "I don't see anything to shoot." + +"Shoot the moose," he whispered again, "there he stands under that +broken-topped spruce." + +The lawyer craned his neck and peered into every shadow but the right one. +Two or three rods below the moose was a clump of bushes growing out beyond +the general shore line. The lawyer finally singled this out as the moose +and opened fire. He was perfectly cool, and every one of his shots went +straight to the centre of the object at which he was firing. + +Moose are notoriously slow to start when alarmed, provided they have not +scented the hunter, and the one in question stood motionless until the +sportsman had fired five shots at his inanimate target and had but one +cartridge left in the magazine. Then the moose turned to escape, and, as +luck would have it, dashed directly into the line of fire. The lawyer saw +it, and with his sixth and last shot dropped the moose stone dead. + +[Illustration: BULL MOOSE IN ALLAGASH STREAM. + +(St. John Waters.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +On another occasion, a sportsman, to show his contempt for Maine's +prohibition law, got gloriously full every day before ten o'clock. + +The guide left him in the canoe one afternoon while he went ashore to look +for some game signs on a bog near at hand. As he was returning he saw a +nice moose step out of cover within ridiculously easy rifle shot of the +sportsman. The sportsman at once opened fire on the moose, but after many +shots the animal trotted off, untouched. + +"'T was this haway," said the bibulous hunter, in explaining his misses, +"when that moose came out there was only one, all right enough, but when I +cut loose with the old gun, blame if the moose didn't double up into two. I +couldn't shoot both at once, and while I was pumping it into one the other +got away. Mus' ha' been I shot at the wrong moose." + +[Illustration: BULL AND COW MOOSE. + +Photographed from Life.] + +"You want to hear how my sports shoot?" said another native guide. "Well, +I'll tell you a little story and then you can judge for yourself. I started +out on the river one afternoon with a man from Boston, to look for moose. +It was a nice, quiet afternoon, and a good one to get game. We dropped down +stream with the current, and the first thing we knew there was a big bull +moose right out in the centre of the stream, sousing his head under +water, and feeding on the lily roots. Mr. A. was paralyzed at the sight, +for he never attempted to shoot. I held the canoe by putting my paddle down +to the bottom, to give him a chance to recover his nerve, and after a while +he realized what was expected of him, raised his rifle and fired. The shot +did not go any where near the moose, and the animal just raised his head +and stood there, looking back over its shoulder. I whispered to Mr. A.: +'You missed. Shoot again.' As it happened, my paddle slipped off into deep +water, and we were floating down on the moose and getting a good deal +closer than necessary. Mr. A. raised his gun and shot again, and then, as +the moose started to walk towards the bank, he got the action limbered up +and fired four more shots as quick as he could work the lever. None of them +touched the moose, and it moved off into the bushes, without seeming to +mind the racket very much. The moose wasn't nearly as rattled as Mr. A. +That man was completely prostrated with excitement. Nothing would do but we +must go straight back to camp. He said his nerves were too badly broken up +to stand anything more of the kind that day. + +"Well, sir, we hadn't gone more than three hundred yards on our return +trip, when I saw another bull on the bog adjacent to the stream. I paddled +Mr. A. within good, easy range, and he tried his luck again, but the bullet +struck the water twenty feet to the right. With that he began to swear, and +he threw his rifle down on the bottom of the canoe, cussing it and +everything else in sight. The moose gave a sudden jump and disappeared in +the alders. I reckon the swearing scared it more than the shooting. + +[Illustration: MOOSE CALVES LEAVING WATER. + +(Mud Pond Region.) + +Photographed from Life.] + +"We hadn't more than a mile to go to reach camp, when Providence, just to +tantalize that man, gave him another opportunity. As we came around the +last bend, there stood a bull and a cow on the bank, not a great way off. +Mr. A. shot twice at the bull, as he stood there, and never touched a hair. +''T ain't no use trying,' he said, 'I can shoot at a paper target all +right, but when it comes to game it's a different matter.' If all the +hunters who go into Maine could shoot as well in the woods as they can at +a mark there wouldn't be a decent head left in the State. + +"Now, there is a sample of your city sportsmen. That man fired nine shots +at those moose and he never drew blood, and I could have hit the larger +majority of them with a brick. Yes, sir; if I'd had a good brick I could +have swatted any one of those animals in the short ribs." + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE SWIMMING MOOSEHEAD LAKE + +Photographed from Life.] + +One of the most amusing incidents to others than the participants, and a +most painful one to them, was the experience of two young moose hunters +from far off Oregon, who tried their luck in the lower Dead River region of +Maine with a jack. The night selected was one of exceptional darkness, the +scene, a large bog about five miles from camp, and all conditions pointed +to a most successful first attempt at this most unsportsmanlike branch of +hunting. Supper over, with both eager for the fray, an early start was in +order, and soon the silent craft with its over-anxious freight left the +bank and started down stream. The intense stillness of an early summer +night was not broken save by an occasional muskrat hurrying to its home in +the bank or the ripples playing round the bow of their canoe. Mile after +mile was reeled off, when suddenly a loud splashing was heard dead ahead in +the stream. It was a simple matter for the man with the jack to light it, +but his experience with the instrument in question was limited, and he had +not discovered the slide arrangement by which the light is quickly covered +without extinguishing it. The splashing continued, and both were undecided +whether to back out of their present position or light up and see what the +real cause of the disturbance was. The man in the stern suggested that the +lamp had better remain in the bottom of the canoe, while his friend in the +bow considered it far better to have a little light on the subject and +therefore be able to get their bearings. By scratching a match and +connecting it with the wick, the jack threw a strong light far ahead on the +silent waters. It required but a second to see a large dark object ten rods +ahead, waist deep in the water, and standing head on. Moose fever had +attacked both of the men, and they sat motionless as the large black +object cautiously moved nearer, wondering at each step who was challenging +him in his woodland retreat. By a superhuman effort the stern man, in a +voice scarcely above a whisper, told his friend to extinguish the light, as +the animal would be upon them in a short space of time. The animal, which +proved to be a large bull moose, decided that a closer inspection of these +trespassers was in order. He was now scarce a rod away, and the light from +the jack being exceedingly bright made him somewhat bewildered, with the +result that he charged the canoe. The water, being shallow at this point, +favored the men and prevented a possible catastrophe. His lordship jumped +in and the men jumped out of the canoe. They crawled to the bank and +secreted themselves as best they could under a neighboring tree, while the +animal made short work of the frail craft he had suddenly taken possession +of. A reasonable time having expired, the guides at the camp became +somewhat anxious as to the safety of their charges, and started in search. +At the approach of another craft the moose trotted off into the woods, +leaving the thoroughly frightened sportsmen in their undesirable position, +where they were found and taken back to camp, two sadder, and I might add, +wiser Oregonians. + +[Illustration: TWO MAGNIFICENT TROPHIES OF THE CHASE. + +The one on the left formerly held the Maine Record.] + +[Illustration: YOUNG BULL MOOSE CAUGHT IN DEEP SNOW. + +(Northern Aroostook.) + +Photographed from Life.] + + +A NOBLE ANIMAL--BUT 'TWAS JUNE. + +The waters of Black Pond, which but a scarce hour before had been lashed +into foam by a southwardly breeze, were silent. In the west the myriad +tints of a golden sunset were disappearing and the tiny stars were +beginning to peep through their blanket of blue. Against this majestic +picture, in the foreground, stood tall pines, rising like sentinels from +the bog in which for years they had found their growth. Far out on the lake +could be heard the solitary cry of a loon calling to his mate. What can be +more sublime, more entertaining, to the true sportsman than to be left +alone with nature in this paradise? A suggestion from the guide that we +skirt the shore and see if there be any game in the pond brought hearty +approval from his employer, and seating myself in the bow, we were soon +under way. Such music the tiny ripples make as they frolic and dance at the +bow, as the craft glides noiselessly along, the whirr of many wings, and a +large flock of wild ducks are up and away at our approach. The moon is on +the rise, and lights this woodland paradise with its shining rays. Suddenly +a loud splashing was heard down the shore not many rods distant, and the +guide sheers off so as to approach the forest denizen from the side. Again +the splashing, and twenty rods distant can be seen a large moose, throwing +the water from off his sides, unconscious of any human intruders. Such a +picture as he made, standing side on, fearless and brave. The guide had +stopped paddling, and the momentum gained was carrying us nearer every +second. Suddenly, coming into his line of vision, he turned his head in our +direction and showed us a most magnificent pair of velvet-covered antlers. +In his eye was the look of defiance, and, with his great head lifted high +in the air, the water still dripping from his brown coat, he seemed to say, +"Well, it's June, what are you going to do about it?" And so it was. We +left him, and slowly paddled back to camp, wishing that the seasons for a +scarce minute had changed,--that October had been June, that June had been +October,--and most of all that we could have used a rifle. + +[Illustration: COW MOOSE ON SHORE OF ALLAGASH LAKE. + +Photographed from Life.] + + +THE ABLEST ROMANCE IN MOOSE HISTORY IS THUS DESCRIBED: + +The man who tells it says he was hunting in the mountains of Nova Scotia, +when he saw a huge bull moose grazing on a patch of moss, a hundred yards +away. He up and fired but when the smoke had cleared away, there stood the +moose grazing as before. + +Again he fired, and again he was chagrined to see that the moose didn't +seem to mind it. A third shot, and the moose disappeared. Much excited, the +hunter ran to the moss patch, and there, on the further slope, lay three +dead moose. 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