CHAPTER XXIV 



SPORTING TERMS AND BIG CATS 



SPORTSMEN AND FALCONRY THE SCREAM OF A PANTHER 

 PANTHER ONE-HALF DAY'S JOURNEY FROM MANHATTAN- 

 PANTHER SIGN YELLOWSTONE KELLY AND A PANTHER 

 GRANDFATHER'S ADVENTURE FOOTSTEPS BEHIND HIM 



MY HAIR STOOD ON END BITTEN BY A GRIZZLY MCLEOD's 



MOUNTAIN LION STANLEY WITH A MOUNTAIN LION ON HIS 

 BACK WILD ANIMAL STORES AND WILD ANIMAL SHIPS 

 SCUFFLE WITH A BLUE-FACED BABOON. 



In the olden time when all sport was the recrea- 

 tion of kings and nobles, there was as much formal- 

 ity connected with it as with any other court func- 

 tion. Of course you all know that "the four-hun- 

 dred" of mediaeval times was wont to 



HUNT WITH FALCONS, 



that is with trained hawks ; but it must not be sup- 

 posed that the king would hunt with the same 

 sort of bird as a squire. No, no, that would have 

 been a terrible social error, an inexcusable one 

 even for a king to make. Soon after the Norman 

 conquest the laws of the land named the sort of 

 birds that the members of each grade of society 

 might use. There was 



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