Animals: Malletted Moose

I’m linud de bear I’m liund de volf Sometams I’m hund de rat.

Las’ night I tak’ my haxe And go for hund de skunk, Polecat. . . .

—French Canadian Saga Last week, if the Montreal Gazette can be believed. Dr. J. A. Beauchamp of St.

Cesaire. Que. took his automobile and went for hunt the big bull moose. Returning home from a night call he saw a moose cross his lawn and start up the village street. Dr. Beauchamp stepped on the gas, gave chase. When the moose turned up a blind street, he was able to crash it with his car against a brick wall, the animal’s legs getting caught under the wheels.

Dr. Beauchamp had no gun, but he is a croquet expert. In the back seat of his car was a croquet mallet. Raising this on high he edged close to the thrashing, snorting creature and resolutely bashed it on the head until dead. Far from earning him a reputation for brutality, the exploit, reported the Gazette, “has made him the hero of the district and his home the Mecca for sightseers from miles around.”