SPORTING TERMS AND BIG CATS 347 



MY HAIR USED TO STAND ON END 



when we came to the part of the story where the 

 footfalls would stop when the traveler paused, and 

 begin again when the traveler began to walk, 

 quicken with the quickened step of the traveler, 

 and 



RUN WHEN THE LONE MAN RAN. 



At last, when grandfather fell down a gully, I 

 thought the beast would be upon his shoulders, 

 but no it paused on the edge of the bank and he 

 could see its 



EYE-BALL GLEAM 



in the moonlight which streamed through the open- 

 ing in the woods made by the gully. At length the 

 traveler .came to a clearing and scaling the rail 

 fence he hastened to a log cabin, but 



IT WAS UNINHABITED! 



Climbing to the roof he tore off some of the 

 "shakes" and crawled in the opening; the inside was 

 filled with flax, so burying himself in the flax he 

 opened his clasp knife and awaited the enemy, but 

 the animal feared to approach the cabin and only 

 made known its presence by 



