Travel Tales - Moose Tails

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Our Hero Jim

The Moose With The Pointy Hoof by Brenda Marcotte

Moose Are Fictitious Animals, Right?

The Memorial Day Weekend Moose Legend by Brenda Marcotte

A Four Moose Morning by Brenda Marcotte

Moonlight Adventure by Warmtears

Our Greenville Trip by Brenda Marcotte

Yet ANOTHER Silly Moose Tale
Silly, but true, apparently!

As you may or may not know, we have a small gift shop on Main Street in Norway, Maine. Now people wander in off the street to browse, perchance to buy some Maine crafts, and some just to talk....

One afternoon this gentleman came in and looked around attentively, examining different items and asking some questions, and somewhere along the way he began to tell me some stories that explained his interest in this item or that, and I was impressed with this man. He had a lot of character, had obviously been brought up in a very loving family environment. His love and reverence for his family/family life and nature/all living creatures...all added to his charm and credibility...so when he told me this story and said it was true I had to believe him!!

(That being said, the introduction is longer than the story!! And, yes, I asked him if I didn't mention names or dates if I could use the story.)

Years ago, when he was a young man, he and a friend and their dates (one of which was not from Maine I would guess) were spending a warm summer afternoon (in Maine) riding along slowly in their convertible with the top down when they heard a clop-clop-clop noise and a big bull moose ran up along 'side them. The moose was content to keep pace beside them for several minutes before turning off into the woods.

When they first heard the noise and turned in surprise to see the moose trotting along 'side the car, one of the young ladies exclaimed, "That's a Maine moose!" and they said, "it sure is." Her next comment left them baffled. "How do they do that?" she asked. Before they could ask "what?" she added to their confusion by adding, "Do the game wardens have to do it?"

Now THAT really had them stumped, but they managed to ask, "what?" and to their astonishment she said, "Put the shoes on the moose...do they have to shoot them with a tranquilizer?" (She assumed the clop-clop-clop noise was from "shoes" like the ones horses wear.)

I am sure that after they stopped laughing they explained to her that a moose's hoof is hard and "no, they don't wear shoes!!"


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