The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-10

AlNdn DullHlllSs tlS lolll'NN ''t Adirondack guide who died recently" '" said native of the Fulton chain coun- try, used to declare that in the days of moose hunting in the Adirondacks he never shot more than once at moose to kill it, because he invariably put the bullet right where it would do the business at the first shot yet one of his favorite stories of his career in the woods was about the moose he shot twelve times before he killed it.
 He was hunting on the West Can ada Creek waters and started two moose, a bull and a COW. They took to thee reek, where Alvah shot the bull and dropped it at the first fire. The COW stopped when the bull fell.
 "Alvah did not want to kill her as she stood in the creek and he tried to scare her so she would go out on land, but she wouldn't move The hunter knew that if he got the moose mad she would come tearing out of the creek at him, and he concluded to make her mad
 The nose of a moose is very tough and will stand good deal of punish- ment but Cunning thought by sending bullet into this cows nose it would sting her so that her temper would in- stantly rise enough to make her seek revenge and rush out of the creek upon him. so he fired bullet into her nose.
 ITO his surprise she merely shook her head a little but her temper was unruffled. He shot another bullet into her nose. She minded 1t no more than she had the other Alvah kept on fir ing bullets into the mooses nose until he had lodged eleven between her eyes and her nostrils. and still she stood still and kept her temper.
 " We'll said Alvab, after all these ef- forts to make her mad had failed, you're either too sweet tempered and good natured to be left alone in this wilderness, or else so set in your ways and contrary that you'll make it un- pleasant for other folks to live here, and so I guess I'd better quit wasting lead on you and gather you in as you stand
 "So Alvah sent a bullet under her ear and tumbled her in the creek.
 "Alvah Cunning killed hundreds of moose, and his story of the killing of the first one is an Adirondack classic His father was one of the greatest hunters the North Woods ever h1d and one day he got after one of the biggest bull moose he had ever seen the track of.
 The moose got away from father as Alvah used to tell the story. and the exyt J fp1I Ixs I and kill it. He laughed at me. and said it took the best kind of a man to bag moose, and he didn't think a twelve year-old boy stood much of show with one. I stuck to it. though, for I had killed bears and deer and wildcats, plenty of 'em, but I hadn't knocked over moose yet and l tho1ght 1t was 1 time I had, if ] was only twelve years | old
 < T stuck to it so tight that by and | by father told me that I might go out l with him and see him kill the moose. I | grinned and said. "All right That'l be | better than nothing" and when father went out that day l shouldered my gun | and went along.
 "'I led the dog. From all I had heard | father and others talk about moose I | gathered that moose were mortal afraid | of man. and would flee and keep on fleeing as long as they knew that one was following them, but that thsy hated | dogs so that they would stop on the | trail to fight one.
 That kept moving in my head on this moose hunt, and I made up my | mind l would see whether it was true or not, If I got the chance, and then maybe. something might happen, I trotted along with father, for he could walk through the woods about as fast as horse could trot on the road, and made no more noise than falling leaf I kept even with him, but few rods off to one side and always in sight of him.
 We hadn't gone more than two miles when I noticed the dog began to lift his head, prick up his ears and sniff the air. I believed that he had got scent of the moose, and determined to conduct that hunt on my own resronsi, billty.
 "'The dog kept tugging at his string and wanted to push forward so much that I quietly slipped his collar. Away he went, and started on his lIH1I dS IdSL dS | COulu run. FHlHpf HUl- | ered after me and wanted to know what I had let the dog go for and ,ollered back that he had slipped his collar and l was trying to catch him.
 !" I didn't stop to argue any farther md was soon a good ways ahead of 'ather. l hadn't gone more than half nile when l came upon the moose, which. bearing the dog behind it, had waited for him to have bout with him. And he was having it. godo and lively "'The dog knew his business and Sept the moose engaged. 1 got up to within safe shooting distance. aimed at ' he butt of the moose's ear and fired The big fellow dropped all in heap in lis tracks and never stirred.
 Pretty soon along came father in a lurry. I had one foot on the big car a ss and maybe l was grinning a lit- le. Father was surprised and TO mis- ake
 C. Well" said he, you tumbed it, idn't you?"
 Yes" said l. "T thought I vouldn't wait until you came up to let le see you klf-it"
 lie laughed anu went to work skin ing the big moose out. As he skinned