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eyes. At last, the Cougar, with a yell of rage, dropped his 

 hold on the child and ran up a tree near at hand; wliile the 

 heroic boy, lii'ting his brother in his arms, carried him into 

 the road, and fell, fainting, ux)on him. 



The other brother had meantime fled, screaming, up the 

 road, and it so hax)i)ened that two men were chopping wood 

 not far away, who, on hearing the screams of the children, 

 came running to the rescue, and met the boy in the road. As 

 soon as he could, he told them the cause of his cries. Seeing 

 the other children lying in the road, they rushed to them, 

 and found the little hero senseless, still grasping the neck 

 of the broken bottle tightly in his hand. The Cougar's vic- 

 tim was too horrified to speak, but pointed to where the 

 savage beast was lying on a limb, in plain view. One of the 

 men had a revolver, and with a few shots killed the Cougar. 

 Both children were badly scratched and bruised, but soon 

 recovered. 



Another instance in which a Cougar attacked a man in 

 daylight, happened but a few years ago. A Swedish sailor 

 named Joseph Jorgenson ran away from a British man-of- 

 war that was anchored at Esquimalt, British Columbia, and 

 found his way through the woods until he rested under the 

 domain of the starry flag. Arriving at my father's farm, on 

 the Sumas, he was glad to obtain employment and to enjoy 

 the comforts of a ranch home. As there was at that time 

 plenty of Government land, and as Joe, like the majority of 

 his race, was an industrious, honest fellow, my father 

 advised him to homestead an excellent quarter-section of 

 land in the near vicinity. 



Joe was elated with the prospect of becoming a land- 

 holder and a citizen of the United States, and as soon as the 

 requisite papers arrived, set off one morning to clear a spot 

 whereon to build his house; but the clearing of that spot 

 was interrupted by a Cougar, in a very unceremonious way. 

 Joe had scarcely begun to work, and was wielding his spade 

 vigorously, when suddenly his arm was seized as in a vise. 

 He wheeled instantly, and found that his arm was in the 

 jaws of a Cougar. He was a young and powerful man, with 



