. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. THE MOOSK. 147 wintor; il\o bulls, in fact, iiro qiiitn Mack at tin's soasoTi. The cariboo turns ucavly wliitc in winter, tlio orniine, weasel, and tlio American liaro pure white. l>ut tlie nioos(i is the monareli of the forest and needs no disf::uiMe. He fears no beast of prey that lives in the norlhei-n rei^ions. Nature never con1eni[)lated f;i\iiig animals
. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. THE MOOSK. 147 wintor; il\o bulls, in fact, iiro qiiitn Mack at tin's soasoTi. The cariboo turns ucavly wliitc in winter, tlio orniine, weasel, and tlio American liaro pure white. l>ut tlie nioos(i is the monareli of the forest and needs no disf::uiMe. He fears no beast of prey that lives in the norlhei-n rei^ions. Nature never con1eni[)lated f;i\iiig animals jiroteetion against man, to whom in the beginning was given dominion over the beastis of the iicld. The nioosf! is essentially a tree-eating animal. ITis fore h>gs are so long and his neck so short tliat he could not graze with comfort. The long prehensile upper lij) or niouflle serves the same jiurpose to him as the trunk of tin; elephant. Mis neck is oidy about twelve inches in cnormouslv p+ronji-and nius<!ular, as it needs to be in order to su])port the great head, which is two feet in length, and the horns which weigh about fifty pounds in a lull-grown male. Th(^ fall is the best time of the year to visit the haunts of the moose. ^J'he weather at this season is all that can bo desired, bilglu and clear and bracing, and if there is a little irost ai 'dg/it, it only vserves to make the sportsman enjoy his ct-mp fire all the more. Although he cannot refrain from an involuntary sliiv^er when he thinks of the rigours of winter, yet he is disposed to be very tolerant of these early nnd mild symptoms of Jack Frost's arrival, for the sake of the brilliant and varied colours which the woods assume at his first approach. N(j one who has not seen it can have any conception of the beauty and variety of the autumnal tints of the foliage in this country. On one maple tree, even on one leaf, may be seen green, yellow, scarlet, and crimson, and many different shades of
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