A MOUNTAIN LION HUNT BY NIGHT 



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"THEY NOW DECORATE MY STUDY. 



the skin and brought them to Colo- home from the taxidermisl it had 



rado Springs, where I am now living, black fox ears! This astonishing 



had them mounted and they metamorphosis was, however, 



now decorate my study. Although plained, when I learned there w 



I had been particularly careful to see bounty of $10 a pair, for mountain 



that the head, which I skinned out lions' ears, 

 myself, was perfect, when it came 



'Mid all the truths evolved by man 



At inspiration's call, 

 None seems more pat at present than, 



" Pride goeth before a fall." 



The turkey gobbler which we 



With proud head elevated. 



Soon by the gleaming ax must I i 



De ed. 



cap tat 



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