. Pioneer life; or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome. their scent,and then leaving the water lie down at a short dis-tance, keeping a keen watch for their pursuers. Ialways found it desirable to have a man and dog atthe water to watch for the deer, and with a gooddog they seldom escaped. A deer will not matewith any other animal than one of its own one is placed when young, in company with acalf, lamb, or any other animal, it will not, as mightbe expected, form an attachment for it. The bucksare very quarrelsome, and during the running se
. Pioneer life; or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome. their scent,and then leaving the water lie down at a short dis-tance, keeping a keen watch for their pursuers. Ialways found it desirable to have a man and dog atthe water to watch for the deer, and with a gooddog they seldom escaped. A deer will not matewith any other animal than one of its own one is placed when young, in company with acalf, lamb, or any other animal, it will not, as mightbe expected, form an attachment for it. The bucksare very quarrelsome, and during the running seasondesperate conflicts often ensue between them, result-ing sometimes in the death of both the have often found two of them lying dead, at theseason I have mentioned, each bearing fatal marks THIRTY YEARS A HUNTER. 185 of the others antlers. I once found one lying in thelast gasp, his antlers interlocked with those of ano-ther, already dead. A neighbor once found two ofthem fighting with their antlers locked, and a doestanding near. He first shot the doe and then boththe bucks. CHAPTER XYII. lU-TtEE AND HABITS OF THE PANTHEB, WOLF AND FOX The jaguar, American panther, or as it is usuallycorrupted by hunters, painter — is* one of themost formidable animals encountered in the forestsof this continent. It belongs to the cat tribe, and inits manner of springing upon its prey, as well as inmany other particulars, it resembles the domesticcat. Its color is the same as the deer, changing inMay with its new coat to a red, which changes againto a bluish color in October. They subsist entirelyupon animal food, their usual prey being deer andrabbits. About the first of January, is called therunning season, being the time when they the first snows of winter come, they seek therocky hills and sheltered places, where they remainuntil driven forth by hunger, when they frequentlyvisit the farmyards of the settlers, and help them-selves to any sheep or fowl that is w
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