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The guide swung his body to the music of a jingling laugh. "Oh; that's it; is it?" he said. "You're stuck on winning those antlers; ain't you, Dol? Well, calling is the 'moose-hunter's secret, and it's a secret that he don't want to give away to every one. When a man is a good caller he's kind o' jealous about keeping the trick to himself.
And certainly Dol's own talent for mimicry came to his aid. No matter to what cause the success was due, each one allowed that Dol made a brilliant attempt to get hold of "the moose-hunter's secret," and give a natural call. The boy had been a genius at imitating the voices of English birds and animals; many a trick had he played on his schoolfellows with his carols and howls.
These last, in the fast-gathering darkness, looked like a sable array of mourners in whose ranks a pale ghost or two mingled, the spectres being slim white-birch trees. The opposite bank presented a similar scene. It was amid such surroundings that Neal Farrar heard for the second time in his life the weird sound of the moose-hunter's call.
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