270 BUCK ATTACKED BY A GLUTTON. 



woods or bounding over the rocky soil ; it is doomed, 

 and nothing but the distant chance of man's inter- 

 vention can save it. 



An Indian hunter told me that he had once 

 witnessed the following scene. He was shooting 

 cariboo, and had approached within easy range of 

 four or five full-grown animals. As he pitched his 

 rifle to his shoulder to kill one of them, the stag of 

 the party gave a bound, for a previously unseen 

 animal had sprung upon its back. For a quarter of 

 an hour the buck struggled, and made the most 

 violent efforts to rid itself of its assailant, but all 

 was fruitless, and the antlered monarch of the forest 

 at length succumbed under the terrible teeth and 

 giant claws of its foe, which, it almost is unnecessary 

 to add, was a glutton. 



