ROUNDING UP CATS IN COLORADO 



would have sent him down the slope at a speed 

 that would have distanced the dogs; once at 

 large in the rough country which spread 

 through the valley, he would have given us 

 another long and fatiguing chase, with a good 

 chance of losing him. Before the trembling 

 limbs could launch into space a bullet pierced 

 his heart and he tumbled from his perch and 

 rolled nearly a hundred feet down the moun- 

 tain side, where his further descent was 

 arrested by the dogs in no gentle fashion. The 

 struggle with the lion was brief. The guide 

 and myself had more of a struggle with the 

 dogs in driving them away from the carcass. 



I was disappointed to learn that the guide 

 had not succeeded in getting a photo. If I 

 could have had a snap-shot with the camera at 

 the lion close by, while in the act of springing, 

 with satisfactory results, I would have had 

 something of more value than the animal's 

 skin. 



II added a few more trophies to my collec- 



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