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of a cliff. He would have made a grand picture thus, but saw 

 us peering from behind some trees, and turned and sprang off 

 the cliff thirty or forty feet. The dogs had to run along the top 

 for some distance before they dared jump to a lower place, and 

 the lion got quite a start. We stood on the cliff and watched 

 him run down hill to the bottom of the gulch, about seventy- 

 five yards, and work up to the top of the hill on the other side. 

 "Hector" overtook him just before he reached the top, but 

 would not attack ; so they went on side by side, only about six 

 feet apart, to a big pinon tree, up which the lion sprang. 



When we reached the tree I found that it was so thick I 

 could not get a clear view, so planned to drive him back down 

 into the gulch and catch him running. Wells and Hardy 

 clubbed and snowballed him for a long time, but without 

 effect. Wells was at length obliged to shoot off the limb he 

 clung to, and that brought him quickly to terms. His speed 

 was too great for me to snap as he passed, but the dogs soon 

 caught him in the gulch. 



Now, I confess, I was a little nervous, waiting down there, 

 alone and unarmed ; for he had shown signs of ugliness, and we 

 had only part of the dogs, on account of Pat's absence. How- 

 ever, I was willing to risk the danger for the sake of the pic- 

 ture. When the dogs bayed him I rushed up close and took 

 a snap-shot, but he was backed up in the shadow, so that the 

 negative was poor. I ran back a few yards, Wells helped me 

 turn the plate-holder, and I tried for a second picture. Just 

 then he made a charge out at me, and I need hardly say that 



