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Title: In pine-tree jungles; a hand-book for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company
Subjects: Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: Bangor, Me., Bangor & Aroostook railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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But at last they persuaded him. He wouldnt have gone very much farther with that bullet throughhis neck, said Worden the next forenoon at the autopsy. Pooh ! sneered Hudnutt; you never would have got that moosein the world if I hadnt had presence of mind enough to drop on him,steer him between those trees, and then knife him. The discussion might have become acrimonious, but just as it wasgetting warm Joe Lacoot, the guide, slicked the black blood off hisfingers and drawled,— Aw, ba gar, I tal yo wat I tink ! Dat moose he ban skeer todeat. He so skeer he fuggeet to tombel down wen he ban dead. Therefore, backed by expert opinion, Hudnutt now points to themounted head in his library at home and says to his guests, Theresthe moose I killed in Maine. Then he lights his cigar and commenceslike this : — Thats the greatest place to hunt in the world, Maine is. Ill tellyou about that moose there. One day when I — Hudnutt is a resourceful relater. He has never told the story twicealike.
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SUFFOi K ENC. A ELECTR, CO, BOSTO SHOT IN THE R. c^ A. JUNGLE. 55 W^Here tHe Big Game Hide. OF Maines total land surface, nearly 23,000 square miles are still a forest wilderness, and by far the larger part of thisgreat jungle-land is in the Bangor & Aroostook region.This means that the man who comes to hunt big gamein the Pine Tree State can ride in the height of railroad comfortand luxury to the very runways and yards of the great forestdenizens. He will find plenty of game within sound of the locomo-tive whistle ; or he can get into his guides canoe, slip up along any ofthe hundreds of devious waterways that penetrate the very heart of theforest primeval, and meet the monarch moose and fleet Virginian deerin jungle fastnesses that have as yet scarcely begun to know thesound of the rifle and the ping of the deadly bullet.

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