Il8 ADVENTURES OF DR. ALLEN. 



argue the case with her lord. His tail curled like a restless 

 viper, lashing the air from side to side while he grew more 

 restless. I stood there, but only a moment, and, as he tore a 

 great chunk from the carcass, with his claws dug into it, I 

 would have given anything I possessed for a picture of him 

 with the sweet morsel in his great paws, and his fierce and 

 threatening attitude. I sent a bullet through his skull. My 

 horse sprang back and ran up the trail. The female bounded 

 across the flat. 



As the echoes of the first shot were thundering through 

 the glens I gave her majesty a quartering shot, which struck 

 her in the flank. She cried out, bit the spot as she ran, and 

 rolled over. The second bullet caught her in the fore leg. 

 Down she went, tumbling over and over. Quick as a flash I 

 gave her a third shot, which stopped her. Scream and echo 

 sounded and resounded, until the last wail of death faded 

 away in the lowlands of the valley. 



My horse had stopped and was feeding in the park, so I 

 examined the battlefield. The male cougar's skull was com- 

 pletely crushed,, his teeth knocked out, his brains scattered 

 over the rocks. The 45-85-300 cartridge had been effective. 

 After an hour's hard work, the skins, with my sheep horns, 

 were in a portable condition. I killed a young bighorn sheep 

 on my way back to camp. 



Meanwhile three large golden eagles had almost ruined 

 my elk meat. They were so loaded down they could 

 scarcely fly. They had eaten out the eyes and then selected 

 choice bits of the meat. One of them sailed over me so close 

 I thought he meditated an attack on me, and as he circled 

 round the second time I shot him. I secured his tail feath- 

 ers, which are deemed very valuable among the Crow In- 

 dians, and hastened to camp as fast as my weight of trophies 

 would permit. John had killed another white-tail deer. We 

 hunted bears the next few days with satisfactory results. 



