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leading along some narrow divide, or 

 across some great plateau, where there 

 was no cover whatever, and where he 

 must have gone at night. During the 

 daytime, when on one of these expedi- 

 tions, he would lie up in some timber 

 coulee, and return to the river-bottoms 

 after dark, so that no one ever saw 

 him; but his tracks were seen very fre- 

 quently. 



He began operations on the bottom 

 .where he had his den. He at first took 

 to lying in wait for the cattle as they 

 came down to drink, when he would seize 

 some animal, usually a fat young steer or 

 > heifer, knocking it over by sheer force. 

 In his furious rush he sometimes broke 

 the back with a terrific blow from his 

 fore-paw; at other times he threw the 

 animal over and bit it to death. The 

 rest of the herd never made any effort to 

 retaliate, but fled in terror. Very soon 

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