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general helper, remained behind and minded 

 camp. We took with us several dogs, because 

 they might be useful in rounding up lions or 

 "cats," as they frequently call the cougar or 

 wildcats in that section. The day passed with- 

 out result, except that I lost my Seitz spy- 

 glasses, which hung on the pummel of my 

 saddle by a leather strap; this had evidently 

 caught on something and snapped. When the 

 guide heard of the loss, he exclaimed with 

 great confidence, "We must find them to^ 

 morrow." I was somewhat inclined to be 

 skeptical about his being able to recover the 

 lost property, but I assented to his going out 

 with a little dog he called Maiden, a cross of 

 a black-and-tan foxhound and a bloodhound, 

 as intelligent an animal as I ever saw. He 

 came back in a few hours with the glasses, and 

 I was curious to learn how he managed to 

 discover them. While following our trail 

 of the day before, he had stopped to call the 

 dogf, which had fallen behind and stood yelp- 

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