TRACKS AND TRACKING 



if it has once found the location of a bevy of 

 quail, grouse or other game birds, it will not stop 

 until the last one of the family is killed. 



Wild predatory animals generally restrict their 

 raids to the hours of the night ; a domestic cat will 

 prowl and kill at any hour during the twenty- 

 four. Some specimens attack even deer fawns 

 and other game of like size. 



A cat shrinks from nothing in its lust for kill- 

 ing not even from water and I remember see- 

 ing a big tom-cat rob a pond in a city park of its 

 goldfish. Unluckily for the marauder I had a 

 gun with me. 



Anyone interested in shooting should keep a 

 lookout for cat tracks in the woods during the 

 summer and autumn, and do his best to let them 

 show no more. 



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