[Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders]@TWC D-Link book
Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXIII
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That, too, was cruel.
"Two other ways we had of hunting moose: Calling and stalking.

The calling was done in this way: We took a bit of birch bark and rolled it up in the shape of a horn.

We took this horn and started out, either on a bright moonlight night or just at evening, or early in the morning.
The man who carried the horn hid himself, and then began to make a lowing sound like a female moose.

He had to do it pretty well to deceive them.

Away in the distance some moose would hear it, and with answering grunts would start off to come to it.


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