The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-03

to notice what MT. Trumbull had to say about their predecessors Eyi- dently they did not make any partic- ular impression upon the veteran writer's ina gination as he classes the animal along with the bears, the loh- sters, the wild geese and the other game, fish and fowl with which the country was infested or blessed. It is comforting to the faithful to know that the bull moose around these parts have been dead since long, long ago and that history repeats itself.
 Instead of the bull moose "eatin' 'em alive as the placards at the New Haven convention expressed it, the To- cal bull moose were eaten and that is why there are no more of them. Ac- cording to TrumbulI, the Indians fled on the flesh and entrails of moose, deer, bears and all kinds of wild beasts and fowls He explained their pecu- liar thoroughness by saying that ''they had good stomachs and nothing came amiss.''
 Notwithstanding the hunger which was so disastrous to the noble animal, some of the Indians apparently. had respect for his memory and liked to wear his emblem around with them. It is probable that some of the em- blems lasted much longer than the real bull moose which they represent
 
 by incisions into which they. conveyed a black or blue unchangeable ink made on their cheeks, arms and other parts of the bodies the figures of moose, deer, bears wolves, hawks, eagles and all such living creatures as were most agreeable to- their fancies These pictures were indelible and last ed during life.''
 The moose was most useful after he had been skinned" The Indians moeasins were generally. made o1 l moose hide, but sometimes of buck skin. s.The sachenls, on great days when they designed to show them selves in the full splendor of majesty not only covered themselves with man. ties of moose or deer skins, with va rious ernbroideries of white beads and with paintings of different kinds, but they wore the skin of a bear, wildcat or some terrible creature upon their shoulders and arms.'
 Modern politicians would doubtless like some information as to the best way to hunt bull moose. Trumbull does not give any help along this line and the only light on how the Indians hunted is given by John w. DeFor- est's History of the Indians of Con- necticut.'' His information applied tc the hunting of deer The method was l every man in his own district" anc the same method is recommended for 1 those who wish to capture present day bull moose. DeForest's account o1 the deer hunting follows. Having during the spring taken notice of the haunts of the deer, they repaired tc them in bands of ten or twenty after the harvest was over in the fall They carried traps. On arriving at the To- calities already marked, each man se- lccted district two or three miles ir extent and built for himself a sn1a1 hunting house or bark and rushes His traps, thirty or forty in number 1 he set in the deer paths and near the springs in his district and every two | days went the rounds to visit them.' 1 It was on account of the incessant warfare of their hungry foes that tht early bull moose of Connecticut passed l into history Their abundance is at tested to by Trunbull in the following l language: ''The country was no less productive of animals than of natura fruit Tn the groves there were plen l ty of deer, moose, fat bears, turkeys ! herons, cartridges quails. pigeons anC other wild game which were excellent for food. Connecticut abounded il