The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-02-20
A RGMARKAeLE RIDE.



Maine Moose.
"You want . story, do you, boysp
Well, Ill tell you Of ride I had onoe
on moose's back" The speaker was
Andrew Hutchins, Of Gardiner, Me-,
and, taking comfortable seat by the
IRE, he commenced his yarn. "lt was
while I was in the northern part Of
Maine, on hunting trip with party
OF men from Boston. They had had
good luck with small game, but they
wanted . moose. I told them that
would show them one before long, and
did. One or two days after they began
asking me where the moose was, and
kinder got me riled. I took my gun,
and told them that I'd get moose pref
ty quick II they wouldn't como racing
around like pack Of steers. OF went,
and had gone about mile when I heard
noise as II the devil had got loose.
got up . tree as soon as possible, and
had just got fairly seated when two OF
the finest moose ever set eyes on came
rightunder the tree. Here was luck,
and took aim at the largest and pulled
the trigger"
Andrew at this point looked rather
sheepish, as II he didn't want to pro-
ceed, but, after considerable urging, the
Gardiner News says, he again contin-
ued.
''The truth Of II was, boys, in my
hurry from the camp forgot to bring
my cartridges, and didn't even have one
In my gun. Well, knocked my head
against limb and tried to think how /
was going to get one of those moose,
who all this time were eyeing each
other like cats and dogs. All Of
sudden they started for each
other and came ker plunk to-
gether, then they backed of again and
tried it over. They kept at this for
quite time, and seemed to be getting
kind Of tired out, and were walking
round and round till they got their
wind. The largest ono was right under
me, and could almost touch his antlers.
never knew how 1t happened, but
down I went, heels over head, and lit
right on that critters back. He didn't
seem to like this sort of surprise party,
and just threw back his head and went,
the other one following after; lucky for
me the trees in that place were pretty
high, and there wasn't much danger of
being knocked of by the limbs.
swell, sir, the time that It takes to
tell this was enough for that moose to
20 half q mile, and the smaller ono
right behind all the time. 1 was cling
ing to the sides Of that moose like a
cockroach to biscuit. 1t was all
could do to breathe, and had lost my hat
long ago. now noticed that we were
going toward tho camp. and we soon
hove in sight Of it. gave q shout, and
as did so felt something slip down my
throat. The boys heard the noise, and
looking up saw us coming. Down went
the board they were playing cards on,
and off they scudded like so many jack
rabbits. We were now right in the
camping place, and l wanted to stop
there, but didn't, no, sir. didn't stop
there, but just about hundred yards
from the camp the moose stopped sud
denly and went over his head into a
brook. wasn't much hurt, and scram-
bled out like grasshopper out of q
knot-hole, and right in front of mo lay
those two moose, dead as a herring. I
put on as straight a face as could, and
walked up to the camp as unconcerned
as possible. Here's the moose prom
ised you, boys I said, and we went back
and cut them up. The boys didn't say a
word till after supper, and then one of
them handed me looking-glass. AS
sure as am what am, my face, which
was covered by heavy beard when I
started, was as smooth as boys, and
two Of my fronr teeth were gone. My
hat / found on the smaller moose's
antler."