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He had had enough of moose-calling for a season. The big moose reigned supreme in all the northland. When the snows of winter began to whiten the wilderness, he led his herd to a sheltered nook deep among the hemlocks. There the yard was formed, a labyrinth of intersecting paths, kept free from deep snow and leading to the best places for food and shelter.
"And we don't want meat, so this time we won't shoot our moose after we've tricked him. Good land! I wouldn't like any fellow to imitate the call of my best girl, that he might put a bullet through me. Come, boys, it's pretty late; let's fix our fire, and turn in." Nothing was talked about among the campers on the following day but the forthcoming sport of the evening moose-calling.
They're powerful fond of moose-wood that's what you call mountain ash. I guess it tastes to them like pie does to us." "Well, Dol, I feel that you're twitching all over with some question," said Cyrus, detecting uneasy movements on the part of the younger boy who lay next to him. "What is it, Chick? Out with it!" "I want to hear about moose-calling," so spoke Dol in heart-eager tones.
He had a very reasonable notion that the mighty stranger might object to the deception which had been practised upon his eager emotions, and might not find the old rail fence much barrier to his righteous wrath. For all his elation, the boy began to wish that he had not been in such haste to learn moose-calling.
There was little leisure for discussing the midnight visit of the lynx, or for anything but the joys of satisfying hunger, and taking in nutrition for the day's tramp, as Herb was in a hurry to break camp, and start on for Katahdin. The morning was very calm; there seemed no chance of a wind springing up, so the evening would probably be a choice one for moose-calling.
Here we are at camp, boys! I tell you the home-camp is a pleasant sort of place, after you've been out moose-calling!" Thereupon ensued loud cheers for the home-camp, the boys feeling that they were letting off steam, and atoning for that long spell of silence, which had been a positive hardship.
But if you want to try work that'll make your blood race through your body like a torrent one minute, and turn you as cold as if your sweat was ice-water the next, you go in for moose-calling. I guess you know all about the matter, Cyrus; but as these Britishers do not, I'll try and explain it to' em.
He stoutly refused all appeals from the boys to give them a few illustrations of moose-calling there and then, with a lesson in the art, declaring that it would spoil the night's sport, and that they must first hear the call amid proper surroundings.
We're a big party already for moose-calling or stalking three of us, with Herb;" this from Cyrus. "Now, fellows, don't you think we'd better get a move on us?" added the leader. "We've half a dozen miles to do yet; but the trail begins right here, and is clearly blazed all the way to our camp. Let's keep a stiff upper lip, and the journey will soon be over."
"I'll take mighty good care that the next time I go to find water for the camp-supper, I don't take a crank with me, who has gone mad on moose-calling," he said. "See here! If we do come across moose-signs, I'll get under cover, and give you quarter of an hour to call and listen for an answer not a second longer. Now stop thinking about this fad, and keep your eyes open for a spring."
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