350 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



The late George Stanley, trapper, of McDonald 

 Lake, was once sitting in a crouching pose, fishing 

 through the ice on this lake; he was dressed in 

 buckskin clothes and furs, and his arm was mov- 

 ing up and down to keep the baited hook bobbing ; 

 his six-shooter lay in front of him on the ice ready 

 for any emergency, when suddenly 



HE FELT A HEAVY ANIMAL POUNCE UPON 

 HIS BACK. 



Stanley did not know the sort of animal with 

 which he had to deal, but he did know that it 

 was no friend of his, so he grabbed his gun and 

 placing the muzzle over his shoulder fired, send- 

 ing 



A BULLET CRASHING THROUGH THE SKULL 



of a big mountain lion. 



The animal was lean and hungry, but it is prob- 

 able that it did not know that the fur-clad lump 

 on the ice was a man : the cat only saw some- 

 thing out on the ice moving and so it crept up and 

 leaped upon the thing as a domestic cat will 

 do upon a smaller moving object. 



THE PIKE COUNTY PANTHER 



did not attack the fisherman on Wolf Lake, but 

 followed him. The Mississippi panther only fol- 

 lowed my "grandfather and did not attack him ; the 



