. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : 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. I 608 BIO OAME OF NORTH AMERICA. touch of terrible punishment from the feet of the Cat in its dying struggles. On another occasion, a gentleman by the name of Har- rison, and myself, with a pair of P^ox-hound puppies belong- ing to him, started and put up, after a two-hours' run, a large male Cat. A four-inch snow lay on the ground; the day was still ar
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : 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. I 608 BIO OAME OF NORTH AMERICA. touch of terrible punishment from the feet of the Cat in its dying struggles. On another occasion, a gentleman by the name of Har- rison, and myself, with a pair of P^ox-hound puppies belong- ing to him, started and put up, after a two-hours' run, a large male Cat. A four-inch snow lay on the ground; the day was still ard clear, and quite warm—a fine day for the sport. We came across the tracks of the animal where it had been rustling around on the previous night. Putting the puppies on the trail, we soon jumi)ed him from some large rocks where he had been lying, sunning himself. In the run that followed, he tried his doubling tactics four or five times; but we being well mounted, and there being no fences to bother us, kept close to the puppies, and would put them to "rights" when the Cat would attempt its dodges. We also had with us a Greyhound. When, after about two hours' chasing, this Greyliound got sight of the quarry, we witnessed some tall running for about two hun- dred yards. Then the old "Tom" ran up a shell-bark hickory-tree, and ensconced himself in a body-crotch about forty feet above the ground. From this perch, Harrison tumbled him out, dead, with a load of buckshot from an old Harper's Ferry musket which he carried. Tliis Wildcat was the largest of the siiecies I ever saw, and would have cleaned out, in a fair fight, all three of our Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shields, G. O. (George Oliver), 1846-1925; Caton, John Dean, 1812-1895. Chicago; New York : Rand, M
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