The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
A BEAUTY
Kinney Brings
Home
A MONSTER MOOSE
Prize of Two Months Hunt
ing in Moosehead Region.

Laden with the spells of the Maint
woods, brown as nut and vigorous
as a lad of IS, A. B, f. Kinney re-
turned to Worcester Friday evening
after nearly two months spent in the
Afoosehead Lake region, hunting big
game and recuperating.
With Mr. Kinney, the latter came
first He went away to rest, resolved
to leave the world of daily papers and
electric cars behind him, to live an out
door life in the primeval forests of his
Maine township. but not to kill moose
or caribou unless he could find some
thing handsomer in the way of a head
of horns than anything he had at home.
He returned with superb moose head.
/ But the way in which he secured it
should be told as Mr.. Kinney told it
last night to the Spy reporter.
i left, according to my schedule, on
Sept. Z, said Mr.. Kinney, going direct
to Moosehead Lake, where l spent a
couple Of weeks, staying most of the
| time at the Kineo House and making
| little side trips. Then l took my guide
and a cook and went over into the west
branch of the Penobscot river to Che
suncook Lake, and from there up Cux-
abuxis stream to Cuxabexis Lake,
which is on the township which Mr..
Martindale of Philadelphia and 1 own
together.
There we went into camp with the
guide and cook the camp being one
that we have been building the past
summer, and there we remained for
rest. We had good fishing, plenty of
cartridges and deer without number.
After Oct. l we could shoot deer and
caribou, which we did, shooting all we
wanted for use in the camp. So we
whiled away our time until Oct. Is,
when the law came off moose.
zone morning early in October 1 took
my guide and went out to call out the
moose. 1t was just daylight Within a
short time 1 had called out three fine,
handsome full-grown bull moose. They
were beauties. There they stood, within
so yards of me, looking me in the face,
with their splendid horns lifted high in
the air. 1t was a picture for a painter.
They stood perfectly still looking at me,
till, knowing they were fooled, with al
most military precision they wheeled
and walked off into the woods. I ven
ture to say that it was the finest pic
ture of big game any sportsman ever
saw in New England.
We'll, all we could do was to lie
there, and rest, and grow fat, till Oct,
IA. When, in the evening, l went out to
see if [ could call out another moose,
| got one to answer me, but he would
not come to me. knew by the way that
his answers came that he remained all
ways in the same place, so I knew that
he had his mate with him. | stayed with
him till 10 or II O'clock, then left him
for the night. Very few guides are good
moose callers. l do not have to depend
on them, however, as 1 can do my own
calling. The point is to initiate as ex-
actly as possible the cry of the COW
moose, which consists of three peculiar
calls. The bun hears the call and think
ing it is his mate, he makes his way to
it. You can hear the COW calls for dis
tance of four miles echoing and re-
echoing at night among the hills. If
you call out the moose at night, you are
pretty sure to find the bull moose early
next morning in the place where you
stood the night before.
That night it turned cold and rained
and showed, so that by morning there
were several inches of snow on the
ground. So / said to my guide, Lets
get into the canvas and see if that old
moose isn't just where we left him
last night When we got to the spot,
there he was with his mate only to
avoid the dropping branches they had
moved into clearing hard by. There
they had stood all night, without max
ing a track. came out within one
hundred yards Of him. He was looking
me square in the face. | shot him in
the breast with an explosive ball that
destroyed his liver then as he turned
around, I gave him another IN the side
through the heart. He walked off about
6G yards before he fell, A monarch Of
the forest, he stood seven feet tall and
WEIGHED not less than 100 pounds He
had magnificent head Of horns, IL