A HUNT WITH A SQUATTER 167 



which he sprang a few feet from the branch, and tumbled 

 headlong to the ground, attacked on all sides by the en- 

 raged curs. 



" The infuriated cougar fought with desperate valor; 

 but the squatter advanced in front of the party, and, almost 

 in the midst of the dogs, shot him immediately behind and 

 beneath the left shoulder. The cougar writhed for a mo- 

 ment in agony, and in another lay dead." 



