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meddled with. Making a wild grab, for a quick get-away, he found 
his hand impaled upon a hundred porcupine quills. That was the 
kind of cub he had brought down. It is probable that he laughed at 
this in after years, but he was in no laughing humor just then. 
We have not space to tell of his hunting the prong-horn antelope, 
the black-tail mountain deer, the stately elk of the hills, the jig-horn, 
cliff-haunting sheep, the mountain goat, and the many smaller crea¬ 
tures of the wilds. It must suffice to say that our daring hunter had 
many exciting, though not dangerous, adventures in search of these, 
winning many trophies of his skill, and left the West with the double 
reputation of being an able rancher and a daring hunter. 
