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in, out she would spring to another, and "Hector" had his fill 

 of chases that day. After three or four of these rushes she was 

 panting like a winded horse. With much care I was able to 

 get a view of her head over the boughs in the top of a low 

 pinon (No. 21), and another where she was sprawled from limb 

 to limb in about as awkward a pose as she could get (No. 22). 

 Wells shot her while in this tree. 



We began to think the fates were against us, as we had killed 

 four lions without catching a single good negative. In the 

 face of this, we resolved to take only two hounds out. Two 

 dogs alone will not attack a lion, should they catch him on the 

 ground, but will simply bay him. It was a week or more be- 

 fore the snow was good again. Then, one afternoon, I found 

 the trail of a big lion not far from camp; and taking "Speckle" 

 and "Nix," I had the lion treed in less than ten minutes. This 

 lion jumped out of the first tree as we came up, but ran only 

 about a hundred yards. Here I took a face view with a tele- 

 photo lens at thirty feet (No. 23), then a broad side view at 

 twenty-five feet (No. 24) ; then we drove him out over the hill 

 and down into a gulch. We could hear the dogs barking be- 

 low us, and, finally, could see them. The lion had bayed on 

 the ground, backing up against a little ledge not over four feet 

 high. When we approached he sprang into the nearest tree, 

 about fifty yards away. Here I used my remaining four plates, 

 getting two excellent views at about twenty-five feet (Nos. 25 

 and 26). We tried our best to drive him out, but without suc- 

 cess. Once or twice I approached within twenty feet, but he 



