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so she ran only a few yards to the next tree, where she was 

 forced to climb again. The camera was rapidly set up, and 

 using the eighteen-inch-focus lens again, I caught her face 

 framed in pinon boughs as she thrust her head out to watch us. 

 (No. 5.) Then I put on the quick lens and took a snap-shot 

 as she ran by. She treed within fifty yards, and some of the 

 dogs climbed after her. Before I could change to the long- 

 focus lens, a drunken cowboy came along the trail and wanted 

 to chase her out and rope her, and so I took a snap-shot at 

 long range (No. 6), as there was a gulch between and the 

 only good view was from across this. Then at last she came 

 out of the tree and down into the gulch, where the dogs 

 caught and finished her. 



Two days later we found the trail of a big lion, and, as it was 

 quite fresh, the dogs were turned loose. But in their hurry 

 they overran the trail, and some deer ran out ahead of them, 

 whose trail they took, in spite of all our efforts. Hardy and I 

 stayed by the lion trail, while Wells and Pat went after the 

 dogs. When found, they had bayed a big buck, and in the 

 fight that ensued "Speckle" received an injury that laid him 

 up for nearly a month. When Wells got back we waited for 

 Pat awhile, but could hear nothing of his horn, so put the 

 hounds on the lion trail again, and in five minutes had him 

 treed. Two of the dogs were still coupled, and Wells, fearing 

 they would get the worst of it in a fight, ran right in under the 

 tree, within ten feet of the lion, to uncouple them. The lion 

 jumped at this, ran about three hundred yards, and bayed on top 



