Animal Anecdotes 
agitated, the neck is stretched out, the wings 
expand and flutter, while the rest of the body 
and tail quivers with apparent emotion. They 
rush towards each other with the utmost fury, 
and hew away with their sharp, sabre-like feet 
with such ferocity that it is seldom that they 
loosen their hold without bringing away at the 
same time a limb or some other part of the 
body of their 
antagonist. The 
usual termination 
of these fights is 
the death of both 
the combatants, 
neither of them 
hardly ever sur- 
viving the fray. 
we 
Two hunters re- 
trip to 
the Kettle River, 
and in the course 
of the hunt wit- 
nessed a rare oc- 
currence. They 
had been on the 
trail of a large 
buck for some 
time and, as it 
chanced, came in 
sight of him at 
the very moment 
when a cougar 
launched himself 
upon him from 
the limb of a tree. 
The cougar 
landed squarely 
on the  buck’s 
shoulders, almost 
throwing him to 
the ground. The 
buck quickly re- 
covered, however, 
and, throwing 
back his head, drove two prongs of his antlers 
into the cougar’s body, and with a swing forward 
threw him to the ground. Leaping backwards, 
he then waited with lowered head for a second 
attack. He had not long to wait, for with a yell 
of rage and pain the cougar sprang upon him. 
He might as well have leaped against an array 
Mange? 
« He was caught on the buck’s antlers and hurled several feet into the air.” 
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of bayonets, for he was caught on the buck’s 
antlers and hurled several feet into the air. 
The instant he struck the ground the deer was 
upon him, striking savagely with his forefeet, 
which cut like Kknife-blades, and driving his 
antlers again and again into his body. Finally 
they separated, and the cougar, sorely wounded 
and almost disabled, crawled forward for -the 
final struggle. 
The deer was 
covered with 
blood, but was 
still in excellent 
fighting trim. At 
this point the 
hunters inter- 
fered; one of 
them walked up 
to the cougar and 
shot him through 
the heart. Hven 
then the buck 
went up to his 
foe, smelled him 
and struck him a 
few times with 
his feet, after 
which he turned 
and walked away. 
The hunters, with 
a sense of justice 
which, it is to be 
hoped, prevails 
among their kind, 
suffered him to 
go unmolested. 
The cougar was 
skinned. He 
measured eight 
feet from tip to 
tip. 
We 
In Russia, when 
The the vil- 
Results lagers 
of Drink. jn ow 
that a bear is 
prowling about in their neighbourhood, they fill an 
enormous tub with the national spirit, “vodka,” 
and so place it that its pungent odours never fail 
as a bait to the animal, who drinks heartily and is 
speedily overcome. Then chains are passed round 
his body and a muzzle adjusted, after which he is 
conducted in triumph through the village. 
