paces apart. Small evergreens with the butts no
thicker than a man's thumb were often used; yet an artificial line of
such brush was enough to turn moose or caribou and cause them to move
forward in a certain direction where the hunters were hiding. Even big
clumps of moss, placed upon trees, will produce the same effect.
Frequently, too, snares for deer are set in suitable places along the
barrier, and while the snares are made of babiche the loops are kept
open with blades of grass.

"There is still another thing I forgot to tell you about moose
hunting--my son, I must be growing old when I forget so much. While my
Indian cousins in the East use birch-bark horns for calling moose, my
other cousins in the Far North never do, yet they call moose, too, but
in a different way. They use the shoulder blade of a deer. Thus, when
a bull is approaching, the hunter stands behind a tree and rubs the
shoulder blade upon the trunk or strikes it against the branches of a
neighbouring bush, as it then makes a sound not unlike a bull thrashing
his horns about. Such a sound makes a bull believe that another is
approaching and ready to fight him for the possession of the cow, and
he prepares to charge his enemy. At such a moment the hunter throws
the shoulder blade into some bushes that may be standing a little way
off, and the enraged bull, hearing this last sound, charges directly
for the spot. Then, as the brute passes broadside, the hunter fires.

"But, my son, to return to caribou hunting, you probably know that
those deer are very fond of open places during sunny weather in winter
time, such places as, for instance, rivers and small lakes where the
wind will not be strong. There they will spend most of the day resting
or playing together in big bands of perhaps fifty or more. Sometimes,
however, when a high wind springs up, they have a curious custom of all
racing round in a circle at high speed. It is a charming sight to
watch them at such sport. Most of their feeding is done right after
sunrise and just before sunset, and at night they always resort to the
woods.

"Then, too, when caribou go out upon a lake they have a habit of lying
down beside the big ridges that rise three or four feet above the rest
of the surface, where the ice has been split apart and then jammed
together again with such power that the edges are forced upward. They
lie down there to avoid the wind while resting in the sun. There the
hunte