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vigorous and in splendid condition. I found him 

 to contan much more fat than any I had previ- 

 ously killed. Before removing the pelt we made 

 two or three pictures, and put the tape on him. 

 He took seven feet five inches of it, and although 

 I have taken them measuring a few inches longer, 

 I believe this fellow, on account of his unusually 

 short tail, had easily the largest body. As for 

 weight, I had no means of weighing him, and 

 guesses at weight are seldom worth recording. 



Then we rode over to the canon, where we had 

 taken up the trail, and packed in my buck of the 

 day before. 



Around the campfire that night we spent a 

 jolly evening discussing the adventures of the 

 day. Hi proposed that we visit the carcass again 

 the next morning with the pack to see if any 

 other night wanderer had been attracted by the 

 odor of venison. At an early hour, on different 

 mounts, found us zigzagging down into the 

 canon until we reached the dismal spot. Rather 

 to our surprise, the hounds took up a trail again 

 and were immediately off, leading us exactly over 

 the ground we had gone the day before, but on 

 reaching the mesa we heard them barking treed. 

 Upon riding up we found an old bob-cat perched 

 up in the limb of an oak. After snapping one or 



