Lobo 



that he stopped and turned aside as soon as 

 he detected suspicious signs on the trail and a 

 new plan to outwit him at once suggested itself. 

 I set the traps in the form of an H ; that is 

 with a row of traps on each side of the trail 

 and one on the trail for the cross-bar of the H 

 Before long, I had an opportunity to count an 

 other failure. Lobo came trotting along the trail 

 and was fairly between the parallel lines be 

 fore he detected the single trap in the trail, but 

 he stopped in time, and why or how he knew 

 enough I cannot tell, the Angel of the wild 

 things must have been with him, but without 

 turning an inch to the right or left, he slowly 

 and cautiously backed on his own tracks, put- 

 ting each paw exactly in its old track until he 

 was off the dangerous ground. Then returning 

 at one side he scratched clods and stones with 

 his hind feet till he had sprung every trap. This 

 he did on many other occasions, and although 

 I varied my methods and redoubled my precau- 

 tions, he was never deceived, his sagacity seemed 

 never at fault, and he might have been pursuing 

 his career of rapine to-day, but for an unfortu- 

 nate alliance that proved his ruin and added 

 his name to the long list of heroes who, unassail- 



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