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The moose loves the forest; he is rarely found in the open ground on the prairie, never. On open level ground, he is easily overtaken by the hunter, as he makes but a poor run in such a situation. His feet are tender, and his wind short; besides, as we have already said, he cannot browse there without great inconvenience.
'I do not wish to be harsh, says he, 'but if I wanted to charackterize these here nature writers, I wud use a much shorter an' uglier wurrud thin liar, if I cud think iv wan, which I cannot. Ye take, f'r example, What's-his-name. Has this man iver been outside iv an aviary? I doubt it. Here he has a guinea pig killin' a moose be bitin' it in th' ear.
This would be carried unanimously, and for Indians with great applause. The next question which required more time for answering would be: "What is each man prepared to give as his contribution toward the feast?" Very strange at first seemed the answers. Mamanowatum, a big Indian moose-hunter, would say: "I have discovered the trail of a moose. I will give half of the animal and his nose."
The stag or Wapiti deer is now chiefly confined to the country west of the Mississippi and northward to British America. The moose we shall speak of hereafter. The Rocky Mountain mule deer, and the long-tailed deer of the same locality, are two more species, and there are also the black-tailed deer and the reindeer, the latter of which is a native of British America.
"What's the use of my telling you how the calf was taken back to the settlement, and got fat, and grew up to give rich milk like cream, as every good Jersey should? You can think all that out for yourself, you know." "But the moose cow," persisted the Child. "Didn't she feel dreadful?" "Well," agreed Uncle Andy, "perhaps she did. But don't you go worrying about that. She got over it.
"Let us say the moose-calf was born upon a great mountain a mountain whose sides are crossed and recrossed by moose-trails paths that wind in and out among the trees, stamped by the hoofs of older and wiser moose. Upon these paths the moose-calf tries his wobbly legs, and one day finds himself gazing out upon a plain where grass is. He has no use for grass does not even know what grass is for.
Bellairs proposed to drive them down to the first village below Cacouna at which the steamboats called, that they might there embark for Moose Island, instead of being obliged to do so at the Cacouna wharf, where they were certain to meet inquisitive acquaintances. But a short time before they were to leave their friends, Doctor Hardy called. He asked to see Mrs.
One of the four on the car was an old Indian and it was he, strangely enough, who broke the silence. He had seen the look in Howland's face, and he spoke softly, close to his ear, "Twent' t'ousand moose down there twent' t'ousand caribou-oo! No man no house more twent' t'ousand miles!"
And he poured out three, and we severally drank to each other's health, and peace was once more restored. Thinks I to myself, now is the time to settle this affair; for the doctor, Peter, and Jessie are all like children; it's right to show 'em how to act. "Doctor," sais I, "just see if the cart with the moose has arrived; we must be a moving soon, for the wind is fair."
Don't you know that a vocabulary rich in slang is poverty stricken in forceful and well chosen English? The wealth of the one is the poverty of the other." "Where is he going?" enquired the boy. "Out by way of Edmonton, Calgary, Moose Jaw, Minneapolis, so on to Pittsburgh. Partner with him, young lawyer, expert in mines, unmarried. He is coming back in a couple of months or so for a big hunt.
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