Recreation Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...old bull's shoulder. At the crack of the rifle he started with that spasmodic motion which is a certain indication of a fatal shot, trotted rapidly around in a circle, and then went down like a stone at the second shot. The cow looked up, at the first shot, trotted a few rods at the second, then gazed fixedly at the mud-colored apparition which had risen from the bog so close to her. Instinctively 1 brought the sights to bear on her shoulder. "Oh, Bossy, how easily could I kill you " but I refrained and told her to go and to take her promising offspring with her. She went. I should like to back that caribou against John Gentry, Star Pointer, or any of the other crack trotters of the country, just to take the conceit out of them. She could easily distance them in the first half mile. We saw several cow and calf moose before we saw a bull. Kipp had an amusing experience with a cow in the dead-water of the Penobscot. The moose was discovered feeding, and stood in such a way that both guide and hunter thought it was a bull. He raised his rifle and the sights were settling to an aim which rarely misses, when the high wind sent a tree crashing to the ground near by. This caused the moose to raise her head, and the act prevented a violation of Maine's game law. Charley then determined to cultivate a closer acquaintance with Miss Moose. He advanced in plain view to within 70 feet of the animal and tried the French and English languages on her in a conversation of several minutes before she repudiated his advances and retired to other pastures. We got our first bull moose near St. John's pond. We had gone only a few rods in the canoe, Jack in the stern, Arkell amidships, and I in the bow, when the guide exclaimed, " I see a moose, ...