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JULY, 1917 
TRAILING A BLIND COUGAR 
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to the ground the dog ran up, to find the 
lion strangely still hanging with its front 
legs over the limb on which it had died, 
where it clung until pulled away by the 
hound. 
U PON examining the lion I found that 
it was the same one I had shot sev¬ 
eral days previously. It was almost 
unbelievable that it had eluded us for full 
six days, during which it had killed a large 
deer unassisted, swam a raging mountain 
stream, and given us the chase of the 
season—all with one eye shot out. For 
that was what I had done that night when 
we first treed it. 
I skinned it. The flesh was too tough 
for even the big hound to eat, but the pelt 
was a splendid one. 
With the hide slung on and the dog by my 
side I retraced the trail we had made 
around the mountain, recrossed the foot- 
log, and found a way back to where the 
carcass of the deer lay in the snow. 
Though I could not photograph the scene 
of the batttle, I made a careful study of 
the tactics the lion must have used in mak¬ 
ing its kill. 
It appeared that it had crouched behind a 
huge rock on the steep mountain side, in the 
timber, probably hiding there when it saw 
the deer grazing along toward the spot. 
The wind must have been blowing from the 
deer to the lion, or the victim would have 
scented his enemy. The deer had walked, 
probably feeding, along the slope, above 
where the lion lay behind the rock. Fifty 
feet away a large tree, nearly four feet 
through, stood between the deer’s path and 
the lion’s hiding place. As the deer, graz¬ 
ing along, brought the tree between its 
own head and the lion’s point of vantage, 
the lion must have sprung like a flash 
straight up the mountain side and pinned 
the deer almost in its tracks. Scarce twelve 
or fifteen feet it dragged its captor and 
then went down. 
Five marvelous leaps took the blind 
cougar up that steep mountain side to its 
prey: all four of its paw tracks at each 
bound were not farther apart than you 
could cover with your hat. The print of 
the deer’s body was plainly visible in the 
snow where the lion had brought it to the 
ground. Then it had been dragged for 
some thirty feet and partly eaten, and later 
dragged on down to a spot suiting the 
victor’s fancy better, where it could be 
eaten of at leisure. 
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