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Title: Frank Forester's Field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York : Springer & Townsend
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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uge Deer, canforce themselves between the stems of the thickset evergieensaplings, among which a man can with difficulty work his wayonly by slow degrees, is in itself no easy matter to comprehend ;but when to size and weight is superadded the vast burthen ofponderous and spreading antlers, which they bear on theirheads—in a full grown bull Moose exceeding 50 lbs. weight—and which, one would imagine, must hopelessly entangle themin the brake, it is impossible to account for the ease and celeritywith which they will pass through the heaviest growth of forest.The hunter is compelled, therefore, to pursue—when he doespursue—both these giants of the cervine race on foot; and forthis reason hounds are rendered as unavailable as hoises; sincethe speed of the animal, when once alarmed, is so great, that itis very questionable whether even in open country, and withmounted hunters, it could be run down, or even run from scentinto view, by the fleetest Fox-hounds. When we consider, how-
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f^. L..»i THE MOOSE. FOREST SPORTS. 205 ever, that, in the wooded fastnesses through which the chaseever Hes, it is utterly impossible to keep the hounds in hearing,and that they could only serve to render the swift and waryquarry swifter and warier yet, it will be at once apparent thathounds must be dispensed with in this species of hunting. The craft of the woodman, therefore, and an accurate know-ledge of the habits of his game, are the only aids on which thehunter can rely; but by these, and the aid of weather to boot,he will find little difficulty, beyond that fatigue and roughingwhich give its chiefest zest to life in the woods, in bringingthese an lered monarchs of the northern wilderness, within rangeof the uneiring rifle. During the rutting season, in the summer months, there aretwo methods by whiqh the Moose may be taken with somethingapproaching very nearly to certainty, by those acquainted withthe country, and with the instincts of the creature. At thisperiod of the year,

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