The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-06
STILL HUNTING
FOR MAINE MOOSE
Henry Braithwaite, Dean OF
Sportsmen, Protests Against
Ignoble Calling
FAIR WAY TO TRAP GAME.
No Tyro Can Play Against a Full
Grown Caribou When the
Animal Has n Chance
to Escape.

Portland. Me-, Dec. 5.-"Still hunting for
Sport; moose calling for the man In search
of trophies" This is the maxim of the
guides of New Brunswick as exemplitled
In Uncle Henry Braithwaite, dean of the
faculty of moose hunters. trapper of thir-
ty years experience and bosom friend OF
every possessor of red corpuscle that ever
trod trail by his side.
Cunning against cunning. brain against
brain. endurance against endurance: this
is real hunting" Braithwaite declared.
Calling a moose is a poor way of getting
one. for the poor beast Is heavily handi-
capped, tending to the hunter all the luck
of his animal nature at the mating season
when caution is thrown aside and the
pursuit of the female overshadows all else
in the mind of the king Of the North
woods.
tradition and most of the book writ
ers maintain that moose calling Is a fine
art: but the guide and trapper know that
it takes a very poor imitation OF the nat
ural call to bring moose within reach
of the rife. In their hearts all true
woodsmcn feel that moose called up and
shot is 4 moose murdered: but man
must live. and since the recurring autumn
brings fresh hunters to the chase 50 the
guide must see that troubles are taken
out or be content to half starve through
lnwardly when the twisted bark horn has
brought fine bull through the thick
woods into the clearing.
EXCITEMENT OF STILL HUNTING.
1.-The still hunt is a very different kind
OF game. When the mating season is past
and the leaves are off the trees; when the
first snow carpets the earth and footing is
good through the big woods, then the
hunter has to match his sagacity against
that of u clear Drained and swift footed
animal. No tyro can play against full
grown bull moose and still less against
the caribou.
Every pair of antlers won at this
matching Of wits is full fairly earned and
many a pair that are lost have given sport
enough in the pursuit to satisfy the men
There is no sitting comfortably and walt
ing for the quarry to be called into sight
Only by hard, perservering and relentless
tracking l. night and by day can the pur-
Up on the little Sou West branch OF the
Miramichi River Henry Braithwaite reigns
over one of the choicest hunting. grounds
of New Brunswick: Here year after year
he meets old friends from all the big CEN
tiers east of Chicago. Theodore Roose-
welt as a young man sat at the feet OF
much Of the habits Of big game ofiicial
duties have never allowed the President
to make a second trip to the Miramichi
country, but Mr.. Roosevelt is still q name
Billy RUSSELL the late. Governor OF
| Massachusetts. yearly found relaxation in
| Henry's company: the Carnegie family are
| New York, Boston and Philadelphia hum
| tiers are included in the list of his per-
| sonal friends.
Full Of the lore Of the woods Henry
| creatures as the scholar knows his books
Winter and summer he lives among them
finding his livelihood In the heart OF the
1 vx.nn A haa d<x1s oil hnnk o hnf
| deal with animals. the old guide is a
somewhat caustic critic of their authors.
That Thompson Seton man is close te
long ago. but Charley Roberts. he ought
to know better than to write what he
does. Never was a panther in the New
less 1t escapes from circus. Charley wa.
brought up in the woods and he surely
| never saw one"
BY Charley Roberts the veteran mean.
| c. g. D. Roberts. who shares the honoI
| with Henry of being a native Of Freder.
Teton. New Brunswick.
Never was freed BY moose and neyel
| expect to be-" he continued. Whats
more. never saw man who was: at any
| rate. not any man who knew his business
The only way 2 man can be freed by q
moose is by fooling round the tree.
| AGGRESSIVE BULL MOOSE.
'1s there's one thing moose won,
stand it's to see another bull rub Its horn
against the trunk Of a tree. To moose
| this is a deadly insult a challenge direct
and no self-respecting bull is going t.
that looks like this challenge 10 SOM lhinf
to sail into. and he isn't slow about gef.
ting under way. Once he gets something
up a tree he's going to keep It there until
| he gets fall out of It or IS killed.
Never was chased by bear but orcs
and that was when ] jumped over lof
| ling trhch Of cubs. The old Girl chased
me a1arter of a mile before She let up