"Well, we used to like to catch a moose, and we had different ways of
doing it. One way was to snare them. We' d make a loop in a rope and
hide it on the ground under the dead leaves in one of their paths. This
was connected with a young sapling whose top was bent down. When the
moose stepped on the loop it would release the sapling, and up it would
bound, catching him by the leg. These snares were always set deep in the
woods, and we couldn't visit them very often. Sometimes the moose would
be there for days, raging and tearing around, and scratching the skin
off his legs. That was cruel. I wouldn't catch a moose in that way now
for a hundred dollars.
"Another way was to hunt them on snow shoes with dogs. In February and
March the snow was deep, and would carry men and dogs. Moose don't go
together in herds. In the summer they wander about over the forest, and
in the autumn they come together in small groups, and select a hundred
or two of acres where there is plenty of heavy undergrowth, and to which
they usually confine themselves. They do this so that their tracks won't
tell their enemies where they are.
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