Three separate times I have touched a wild deer with my hand; once I touched a moose, once an eagle, once a bear; and a score of times at least I have had to frighten these big animals or get out of their way, when their curiosity brought them too near for perfect comfort.

Umquenawis, um-que-nâ'wis, the moose.

Once a great moose started from a thicket of willows and galloped over a hill.

"He's a moose!" whispered Bruce, as they crept close to the rather broad waters-hole and eyed the creature through a crack between upended ice-cakes.

In this way the Indians successfully pursue and take the moose and reindeer of our region. 19th.

Mozojeed, or the Moose's Tail, an Ojibwa chief of Ottawa Lake, in the region at the source of Chippewa River of the Upper Mississippi, dictates a letter to me.

For a hero who has not skill enough or imagination enough to kill a moose stands rather in Nowhere with Boston fashion.

We dined with lumbermen and moose-hunters, scufflingly.

The moose is the lion of these regions.

Near Greenville, a gigantic pair of moose-horns marks a fork in the road.

Thenceforth moose-facts and moose-legends become the staple of conversation.

Thenceforth moose-facts and moose-legends become the staple of conversation.

Moose-meat, combining the flavor of beefsteak and the white of turtle, appears on the table.

Moose-horns with full explanations, so that the buyer can play the part of hunter, are for sale.

Sportsmen at Kinneo can choose a matinée with the trout or a soirée with the moose.

The chief fact of a moose's person is that pair of strange excrescences, his horns.

A pair of moose-horns overlooks me as I write; they weigh twenty pounds, are nearly five feet in spread, on the right horn are nine developed and two undeveloped antlers, the plates are sixteen inches broad,a doughty head-piece.

In spring, when the first anemone trembles to the vernal breeze, the moose nods welcome to the wind, and as he nods feels something rattle on his skull.

I make no apology for giving a few lines to the great event of a moose's life.

The Kinneo House is head-quarters for moose-hunters.

A skeleton lodge and frame of poles for drying moose-hides remained.

Moose were said to haunt these regions.

Toward midnight our would-be moose-hunter paddled about up and down, seeking them and finding not.

There were no moose looming duskily in the shallows, to be done to death at their banquet.

Two hunters of moose, in default of their fern-horned, blubber-lipped game, had condescended to muskrat, and were making the lower end of Chesuncook fragrant with muskiness.