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A MOOSE HUNT IN
NEW BRUNSWICK.
Out Door Life.
October Ist found me hastening to
Riley Brook, where I had engaged to
meet Mr. W. F. Whitney, a well-known
American sportsman, for a moose
hunt. As Mr. Whitney expressed a
desire for a big head, after due con
sultation we determined to go to camp
about thirty miles distant, from
which I had just returned with two
gentlemen from Norfolk, Va., who had
secured a very large moose head. But
we would take our time, bunting on
the way in and staying at Intervening
camps.
So after a day to get tilings in
shape, on the morning of October 3rd
we shouldered our little packs and
hit the trail, taking along an extra
guide to help with the luggage, un'il
we should get to our permanent camp.
After a hard day’s tramp, during
which we saw several small moose,
we reached my camp at Blue Moun
tain lake, where we were to pass the
night. After the cook had prepared
supper and we had laid away a goodly
supply, we thought we would go cut
on the lake and call a while, just to
get our hand in and see if there were
any bulls in that neighborhood, who
could he persuaded to pay us a vis
it. It was not a good night for call
ing, as there was too much wind, but
we succeeded in getting an answe •
end coaxed the old fellow down to
the edge of the water, hut it was too
dark to make him out, and he sudden
ly got our scent and went sjnashing
through the woods like a runaway lo
comotive. The next morning as we
were crossing the lake to continue
our journey, we saw a cow moose
feeding on the shore of a small is
land and succeeded In chasing her in
to deep water and photographing her.
jDn October fith we rencheJ our
hunting ground, seeing a number of
moose on the way, but none with big
horns. Here our companion left us
on his long tramp back to Riley
Brook, where he was to meet another
party. That evening being favorable
for calling, we paddled across the
lake to a cove, much frequented by
moose. Here, after a few calls, we
got an answer from a very large one,
as we could tell by the noise nis
horns made as he came smashing and
tearing down over the side of a ridge,
and a few minutes later we got an
other answer, coming from a piece
of low barren land which lay between
ns and the ridge grown up with fir
and spruce. Mr. Whitney now got
his rifle In readiness, and as we lis
tened to those old fellows tearing
their way through the brush, visions
of a 00-inch spread before us; hut
(here is a many slin between the cup
and the lip, especially in moose hunt
ing, for as we listened, suddenly each
moose seemed to think that they
would settle then and there as to
which should call that evening upon
the lady moose beside the lake, so
they fell upon each other hoof and
horns, and for about fifteen minutes
it sounded as if a tornado had struck
that particular section of New Bruns
wick. Finally the weaker of the two
fled with the other close in pursuit.
Night had now fallen and we paddled
slowly back to camp musing sadly on
the uncertainty of moose (bull moose
in particular.)
The wind was blowing hard next
morning, but we visited the scene of
bafctle and found the ground plen
tifully strown with bunches of hair.
All the small trees within a radius ot
several rods were bent and broken
down, but the moose was vanished.
So we returned to the camp, and af
after breakfast determined to try the
hardwood ridges, but the leaves being
very dry and the wind baffling, we
found it very poor hunting. After
traveling the better part of the day
without seeing anything but the van
ishing tails of several deer, and where
we had stampeded a number of moose,
we turned backwards toward camp,
visiting on the way some ponds and
beaver meadows where we called for
a short time and -thought we heard an
answer. But the sun had gone down
and camp was a mile away so reluc
tantly we began to climb the ridge,
on the trail that led to the camp and
supper. As we neared the top of the
hardwood ridge the wind suddenly
carried to our ears a sound that
brought us to a sudden stop. After
listening a moment we heard it again
—the far away grunt of a bull-moose.
We quickly got off our birch horn
and gave a call; again he answered
"Ought Ought Ought” and we could
hear his horns as he forced his way
between trees, breaking branches and
undergrowth from his path. But the
question was, would he come near
enough for us to see him in the gath
ering twilight, or would the treach
erous wind carry our scent to him
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and send him into a sudden fright?
Still he came on, stopping at inter
vals, and soon we could see his huge
black form indistinctly among the
trees, and then we got a glimpse
of his antlers a3 he forced his way
through some whitewoods; suddenly
lie stopped and threw up his head
whose linger had been on the trigger
of his old 45-70 for some time, did
not wait to see what further he would
do, but put a bullet linto his shoulder
and as he tuftfed to run, give him an
other that put him down and out.
As it was now nearly dark, we let
him lie theie and hastened to the
camp where, it being up to Mr. Whit
..ty, he came round with a box of pre
served ginger, which he knew I liked.
The next morning we hastened back
and found that we had secured a
magnificent head of nearly 60-inch
spread. We now put in several days
fishing and loafing around the camp,
from which we returned home by ca
noe, via the swift flowing right branch
of the Tobique, reaching Riley Brook
on October 15th.
THE DEACON WAS RIGHT.
A minister of the gospel one Sab
bath announced to his flock that he
would have to leave them, as he was
called to another field, says the Phil
adelphia Ledger.
“How much more salary do you ex
pect to get there than here?” asked
one of the deacons.
“Three hundred dollars,” remarked
the minister, with some hesitation.
“I do not blame you for goin’,’’ re
marked the deacon, who had been a
worldly man in his time, “but you
should be more exact in your lan
guage. That isn’t a ‘call’, it’s a
‘raise.’ ”
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