Rod and gun . and making a good meal out of Camp-bells soup, pork and beans, bread and the afternoon we decided to stay onthis lake and call for moose. LeFebvre,our best guide, blew his horn, which wasmade of bark, giving a loud sonorous callfor a bull moose. This call was repeatedat intervals and towards five oclock wedistinctly heard an answer and the break-ing of the branches not very far the guide repeated the cry in alower tone he could not induce the bullto come to the shore. This is often the one was tired we went to bed at nineoclock in order to rise at five a. m. th
Rod and gun . and making a good meal out of Camp-bells soup, pork and beans, bread and the afternoon we decided to stay onthis lake and call for moose. LeFebvre,our best guide, blew his horn, which wasmade of bark, giving a loud sonorous callfor a bull moose. This call was repeatedat intervals and towards five oclock wedistinctly heard an answer and the break-ing of the branches not very far the guide repeated the cry in alower tone he could not induce the bullto come to the shore. This is often the one was tired we went to bed at nineoclock in order to rise at five a. m. thefollowing morning in time to prepare alight breakfast and move on to some otherlake. We tried the second lake the nextday, choosing a point from which wecould see all about us. Here again ourcalls were answered but they did notbring the game. I certainly made up mymind that this lake was the place for amoose. We decided to return to camp,which we reached at twelve oclock. Onour wav home we saw, a hundred feet. View Taken From Top of Lake la Croix. case with an old bull. We knew he hadcome to the shore during the night as histracks clearly showed this. While wait-ing to catch a sight of the moose I hadthe pleasure of seeing, for the first time,beavers moving about at not more thanthree hundred yards from me. Theywere carrying branches across the when carrying a large branch theyswim very fast. We returned to the•cabin and had a good meal and as every ahead of us, a cow moose who did nottake to the woods until we came withinforty feet of her. The portage was fullof deer and moose tracks. I baggedthree more partridges on my way to thecamp and my friend got a couple were quite hungry on our arrival andcooked a first class meal of soup, pork,potatoes, onions, following up a cup ofgood tea with a delicious pipe. Myfriend wished to go partridge hunting I038 ROD AXD GUN IN CANADA
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