. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. TJiK corn AH. 4i; rears a,i;() LCouj;ar. itartfd til ,111 Vurk, iiul 1 was 1»^H of luy ishes ami -iin-il. till' ,/('ii roail, 4. When oiriiied to ,y nothin;^' r nu', witli Jougar. a woman's illy that it spiling to )ssil)lt', l)Ut k or move, iized, while ihling with it did not r eyes lixed 'gan to walk 11, but kei)t veen me and ^vhile it was t to pass i
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. TJiK corn AH. 4i; rears a,i;() LCouj;ar. itartfd til ,111 Vurk, iiul 1 was 1»^H of luy ishes ami -iin-il. till' ,/('ii roail, 4. When oiriiied to ,y nothin;^' r nu', witli Jougar. a woman's illy that it spiling to )ssil)lt', l)Ut k or move, iized, while ihling with it did not r eyes lixed 'gan to walk 11, but kei)t veen me and ^vhile it was t to pass it. e from it. I I could, and lilt judge of ugar croucli- t again until •ecovered my ig backward. T could see tile C'ougnr trotting swiftly al'tt-i' nie. I ran until 1 could I'Uii iio longer, and then wheeled and faced tiie Cougar again, which again stopped and crouched in the road. " I began to take courage, seeing that the animal did not atteuipl to do nif injury so long as I was looking at it, and .so I continued to walk backward. 1 had come mor • than a mile since the Cougar first made his appearance, and I hoped when I got out of the woods into the prairie, which now was not more than a mih' distant, that the Cougar would leave me; so I kept on my retrograde way. When i got about a hundred yards away from the Cougai-, it rose from its recumbent i»osition and cume trotting (m toward me, iiiid when it came within a few feet, crouched again. At liiat time my heart gave a great leap for joy, for on the peb- bled load came the sound of the Hying footsteps of a horse. Looking over my shoulder, I saw it was my pony, ridden by a half-breed boy who lived at the fai'rn. Hut my joy was of short duration, for when he saw the (Joiigar In' wheeled the pony, and the sound of his footsteps soon became faint in the distance. " Walking slowly backward, but with fainting heart, I reached the edge of the i)rairie. As soon as the Cougar saw the oi)en expanse before it, a change
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