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of a cougar, stabbed and cut in many places. 

 Certainly that must have been a grim fight, 

 in the gloomy, lonely recesses of the swamp, 

 with no one to watch the midnight death 

 struggle between the powerful, naked man 

 and the ferocious brute that was his almost 

 unseen assailant. 



When hungry, a cougar will attack any 

 thing it can master. I have known of their 

 killing wolves and large dogs. A friend of 

 mine, a ranchman in Wyoming, had two 

 grizzly bear cubs in his possession at one 

 time, and they were kept in a pen outside the 

 ranch. One night two cougars came down, 

 and after vain efforts to catch a dog which 

 was on the place, leaped into the pen and 

 carried off the two young bears! 



Two or three powerful dogs, however, 

 will give a cougar all he wants to do to 

 defend himself. A relative of mine in one 

 of the Southern States had a small pack 

 of five blood-hounds, with which he used to 

 hunt the canebrakes for bear, wildcats, etc. 

 On one occasion they ran across a cougar, 



