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Title: Fredericton, New Brunswick and the St. John River : for the tourist and sportsman.
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Fredericton Tourist Association
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Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Fredericton Tourist Association
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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according tocircumstances. The latter figure may seem high, but the guide is usually a trapper, whohas a country of his own in which he had built camps and canoes, cut trails and gone toother expense on capital account. Unless he receives good wages as a guide it would payhim to go and shoot the moose himself. At least one additional man, combining the officeof cook and packer, will be needed, so that the chief guide may devote his whole attentionto hunting. If a team is necessary to haul the supplies in over the portage road, the teamsterwill expect to receive five dollars a day for himself and team. You will decide that this isnot excessive after you have watched him for a few hours battling with the roots and rocks,blowdowns and quagmires of the portage. To make reasonably sure of bagging a bull moose, a trip of at least two or three weeks isnecessary. Such a trip should cost from $i 50 to $250. The sportsman is at liberty to makeit cost as much more as he pleases. Page Thirty-five
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NEW BRUNSWICK MOOSK IN Til KIR NATIVK. WILDS FREDERICTON :: NEW BRUNSWICK • CANADA To call a moose successfully is the consummation of the woodmans art. The longwhite nostril of the animal is alert to catch your scent, and his power of hearing is nothingshort of marvelous. He is almost sure to detect the first false step, or the first false notein the music. The conjugal tendency, however, is potent in these autumn days, and heobeys, it may be guessed, against his better judgment, the summons of the phantom maidenmoose, whose glances pierce the heart like fiery hail and from whose mystic bower no bullmoose eer returns. The birchen horn used by the caller is made from sixteen to twenty inches in length,about one inch in diameter at the inner and four inches at the outer end. If the guideknows his business he will contrive to produce with this instrument the most plaintive,pathetic, voluminous, soul-moving melody that was ever heard on sea or land. The usual time of day to call for mo

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