MOOSE CALLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 76, 10 January 1928, Page 6

MOOSE CALLING.

"MADDER THAN A WOUNDED WILD-CAT." Alany animals are curious, and birds, too, for that matter. One who can imitate their natural calls with even a fair degree of accuracy is pretty sure to get a response. Veteran guides themselves do not understand why a bull moose will so frequently answer the fraudulent call of a birch bark horn in the hands of a man. "I’ve listened to perhaps a hundred moose calling,” said a Maine guide recently to a "New York Times” representative, "and it seemed to me that no two were exactly alike. Some were short cries, others prolonger wailings. Others would start with a high whine and descend down, the scale. 1 was up in the Allegash region late last fall before the rivers and likes had lrozen up. An old Indian had shown me how to fashion one of the most ingenious birch bark horns for moose calling I had ever seen, and one evening I tried it out.” ' . "Aly cabin was near Fiv§ Dinger Brook, on the shore of Teal Pond, a small body of water about half a mile across and four or five miles long. I was delighted when I got an answer from a long way off, over the Allegash Alountains. Well, we massed ea.cn other back and forth' for several minutes, ■ until I got tired and turned m "Two hours later I was awakened by a crashing and splashing outside. It was a clear moonlight night. Opening the cabin door, I peered out. There, standing on the shore, shaking lumselt and pawing the beach, was a big bull moose. - He must have come miles to answer the call I had forgotten, aboutAnd when'he reached the pond he did not go round—just took the shortest route and swam it! He was madder than a wounded wild-cot when he found that he had been fooled, and he snorted .ail bellowed around there for some time before he began to calm down I shut and barred the cabin door and did no more moose calling that night.