style of hunting was entirely changed. 

 The puma has all his senses with him 

 ready for business. At last stretched 

 flat behind a rock I peeped over, 

 and there within seventy-five yards 

 of me, broadside on, a splendid shot, 

 stood a magnificent tawny creature, 

 with a big tail swaying from side to 

 side. I could see the yellow gleam 

 of his eye and I shall never forget 

 that tail! He had been lying down, 

 perhaps asleep on the sunny ledge 

 and just at that instant had gotten 

 up. He was not alarmed. Quickly 

 I ducked down and raised my rifle 

 over the rock and sighted along the 

 barrel. Now what do you suppose 

 happened?" 



Bobbie's face was grim at the 

 recollection and his eyes looked out 

 reproachfully. "In that fraction of 

 time the lion had moved two or 

 three paces and his head and shoul- 

 ders were hidden behind a tree, 

 just the tip of his nose was visible 

 to the right of the tree. I stayed my 

 finger on the trigger a second so as 

 to let the shoulder be exposed again, 

 when that cussed puma turned at 

 right angles and by the meanest 



