Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-05
HUNTING MOOSE.
The Three Common Ways Explained
by a Hunter.
interesting Things Said by Metropolitan Pa
pers When the Season Opened.

There were some interesting things
said by the metropolitan papers on the
day that the moose law went off the
animals in the State, and in every ar
ticle, the wonders of the Pine Tree
State were fully set forth. The infor-
nation in the papers was to the effect
that the law was off moose and that
any one who wished to do SO, could
watch and wait for his special brand
of big game and no one is responsible
to the court for having killed one bull
moose. In fact the papers seemed to
infer that the people Of Maine raised
these animals to be killed, which they
do. They further went on to
explain that if one killed two
moose he may expect to be ushered
into the presence of legal tribunal
by one of Commissioner Cartoons
men, and be assessed a sufficient sum
to wipe out the State debt.
They spoke of the achievements
who have rushed into the woods to
join the armed regiments of sportsmen
and sportswomen, who have been on
the firing line since the first of Octo-
Der. The last to go are supposed to be
the tough and rugged reserves of the
battalions who have been in the for
ests regularly at the call of their
guides. They have shot deer by the
dozens, and they would not go across
the streets to shoot a caribou. But
every heart in the bunch quivered and
pumped at the anticipation of killing
monster moose, the broad spreading
antlers of which make such a beauti-
full and useful hat tree at home.
The writer's found great material for
the stories at the stations and on the
trains. Here are some Of the humor-
Gus stories, and the real manner of
hunting moose as one man sees it,
taken from the Boston Globe:
80, mamma, cried the child, "see the
violin player with his fiddle in that
cute little leather case"
Hush, my dear" said the motherly
woman, that man does not belong to
the band. He is carrying a gun like
the one your papa bought when he put
the last mortgage on the old home
stead. 1t cost more than a Stradivarius
and he kept it in pink cotton, her
metically sealed. When he died I got
the case and the mortgage got the
gum
'Bikes checked to the left, miss
shouted the herdic driver as his girl
passenger alghted at the station.
WHAT screamed the lady, grasp
ing her short skirt involuntarily to lift
it out of the mud, and disclosing a bit
of blue boomers.
'Bikes to the left" and the cabby
smiled.
"Impertinence, impudence!" snapped
she, with scorn. Il would have you to
l.
common wheel The blood of a hunt
ress courses through my veins, and il
my rifle was at hand / would toss you
& in the air, sir, and pierce you through
the heart four times with a small cali
Der bullet with a mushroom head eel
your body touched the concrete"
BEG pardon, Miss Huntress," bowed
the cabby, as the lady swished off in
her short skirts to swing on to the 8
"A. Nj. down east express.
By incidents and scenes like these
the monotony of the great Union sta
ton was broken morning. afternoon
and night during the hegira of the
week to the wilderness of Maine.
If the walls of the smoking cars only
had ears to hear and tongues to tel
the tales. what marvellous stories OF
adventures in the woods might be re.
lated here. But it is enough to picture
now the seats of the coaches loaded
with the implements of warfare agains
the moose. the chap with the twisted
cigar and the fellow with the rank ole
briarwood pipe describing the hes
methods of betraying to death the willy
bulls, while the man who has 20 ant
lers above his fireplace at home is con
tent to listen and say nothing.
There are three ways of huntins
moose remarks the lawyer in tn,
leather jacket as he twists his spin,
out of shape to talk to the two gentle
men in the seat behind, 'just thre,
ways. The easiest and the one. tina
requires the least skill is to seek GU
some locality known to be frequentet
by the game. A stream of water flow.
through the region. You get into ;
canoe and paddle along until you reacl
some point where the moose come dow1
to the shore and drink. In the earl,
part of the open season, if the weather
happens to be warm, the monarchs o.
the woods will get dry quickly, ant
the quicker they have a thirst afta,