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.
"Any of these places where there were several moose we called a moose yard.

We went through the woods till we got on to the tracks of some of the animals belonging to it, then the dogs smelled them and went ahead to start them.

If I shut my eyes now I can see one of our moose hunts.
The moose running and plunging through the snow crust, and occasionally rising up and striking at the dogs that hang on to his bleeding flanks and legs.

The hunters' rifles going crack, crack, crack, sometimes killing or wounding dogs as well as moose.