Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . allowed him to mount upon his when they reached tlie King Deers fazenda the cotia sat up ^•erystraight, and dug his heels into the jaguars ribs, and began to lashhim with a cipo which he held in his paw. Then the jaguar wasangry, and rushed by very fast, trying to throw the cotia off, and thecotia caught hold of a hanging vine and escaped among the branchesof the tree. When the jaguar lound h
Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . allowed him to mount upon his when they reached tlie King Deers fazenda the cotia sat up ^•erystraight, and dug his heels into the jaguars ribs, and began to lashhim with a cipo which he held in his paw. Then the jaguar wasangry, and rushed by very fast, trying to throw the cotia off, and thecotia caught hold of a hanging vine and escaped among the branchesof the tree. When the jaguar lound how^ he had been fooled, he 132 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IX SOUTH AMERICA. determined to kill the cotia. Now there was only one spring in theIbrest, and he knew il he lay in wait here the eotia must eome,sooner or later, to drink. Now the cotia knew that the jaguar was lyingin wait lor him at the spring, and kept away until he became verythirstw Then he saw an old woman going through the forest with ajar on her head, lie ran before her and lay in her path, feigning tobe dead. She pushed him out of the way with her foot, saying, ^Onedead eotia is not worth picking up. The cotia waited until the. woman had gone on, then he got up, ran on ahead, and again feignedhimself dead. The woman then said, ^ Even two dead cotias are notworth picking up. The cotia repeated tlie trick a third time andthe woman now said, One dead cotia is not worth picking up,neither are two, but three are. I will go back for the other two andleave this one beside my jar until I return. As soon as she was outoi sight the cotia overturned the jar, but to his disappointment foundthat it contained molasses instead of water. However, he determinedto make the best of it, and rolled himself first in the molasses, andthen in a bed of dried leaves. This he repeated several times, until A JAGUAR HUNT. 133 his appearance was quite cliangcd. lie then went boldly to thespring. The jaguar challenged him crying out Whom have weh
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