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found the entrails of the deer lying on the 

 ground. The entrails were not torn to pieces, 

 but, on the the contrary, were entire, and 

 looked as though some skillful hunter had 

 taken them out with a knife. This greatly 

 surprised me and I began to look cau- 

 tiously around to see if I could discover what 

 it w^as, when, within about twenty paces of 

 where I stood, a mountain lion suddenly raised 

 up from the ground and, before I had time to 

 shoot, darted into a thick clump of bushes. 

 However I managed to lire just as it dis- 

 appeared, but must have missed it. I was 

 afraid to follow it into the thicket, and ran up 

 on a cliff near by to shoot it as it passed out on 

 the other side. But in this I was disappointed 

 as it did not show itself. I waited lor some 

 time hoping to be able to get a fair shot at 

 it, but its stomach was well filled off the 

 deer, and I suppose it lay down in the thicket 

 and went to sleep for the day, at any rate, I 

 never saw 't again. The panthers were 

 even more numerous aod more dangerous than 

 the mountain lions, and when we had fresh 



