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Show ; iia. She meant business, too. Ifer red find steaming tongue lolled, ont of her half open mouth, awl her Aes, partially closed in rage, would have seemed quizzical quiz-zical in expression wore it not for the ferocity which leaped and flashed in their depths, like sheet lightning bo-hind bo-hind conio cloud screen. She came straight to us, and wo settled her tron-MeH tron-MeH ut the first fire. We found tho cub up on the divide. She had carried it at least sixty rods, with two bullet hole in her shaggy hide, us wo found when we skinned her. Kansas City fctar. T!)e Mother KrarCumo Hack tor Kevenpe. j One di.y while proc'tvlinir up a cao-; cao-; yon in the Eaton inouiit:tins a larso t-ilvcrtip hour and her cub leaped out raid miu) a rush up tho sloping side of the valley. There were three in our party, and every Winchester beiran to tulk very a mostly and excitedly. The I cub tumbled dead tiie first fire. I call 1 him a cub, hut ihe truth is he was more than h.ilf as large an his mother and ; weighed ilU pounds. The old lady did ' not show atiy injury, and the moment the vouul; ono tumbled she turned and j came back square in the teeth of the rifles, and seizing her dead cub in her month as a cat does a kitten raised it fairly clear of the ground and cantered up the hill-no hill-no easy matter, as aside from the 2t0 pounds of limp and dragging weight sho had to force her anxious, loving way through oak brush which in many in-i in-i stances might have detained a steer. She pot fairly away albeit we fired sev-Hal sev-Hal shots after the cub fell. We had just reloaded the magazines of our Winchesters and were communing commun-ing as to taking tho trail of tho old lear, which showed wide and clear in broken bushes find disturlx-d oak leaves and pine needles, when looking tip we be- i held our game1 cowing 'back itraight for |