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Show LIONS KILL DEEH. America's Mountain Cat Slays More Game Than Bullets of tho Huntera. More deer are killed every year In California bv tho mountain lions than by the bulletB of the huntera, says a Los Angeles dispatch to the New' York Herald. Her-ald. Next to the Jaguar, tho mountain Hon Is the largest cat in the two Americas, and he is the champion deer slayer of tho world. Within thirty or forty mlleB of L03 Angeles he catches the fleet footed, graceful creatures, and waxes fat on .tho sweet flesh. He knows no deer season other than all the time. Wherever there is good deer country in this or any other Southwestern State there la the best place to look for lions, and that Is one of tho reasons why the large herds of deer are restless, seldom staying long in one locality. Thore Is nothing they fear more than the sight or smell of a mountain lion. Nbt even tho sudden appearance of a hunter will so quickly drive them from a range of hills. The lion's method of hunting the deer Is not unllko that of the big catB of Africa and India in the pursuit of the antelope and deer of those countries. Having found a spring or pool whero the desired game cornea to water at nightfall, the Hon selects an overhanging overhang-ing limb or ledge of rock, when one leap will carry him to the back or throat of his prey and thereon ho lays himself in perfect stillness. In the gathering dusk the imperfect eye of the deer has llttlo chance againBt the hidden foe, and the wind, usually his faithful ally, can help ' him not at all, for the lion Is far too old a campaigner not to lie up wind from tho spring. The deer comes. Ono leap from tho limb or ledge, and tho Bharp teeth and powerful paws soon break tho tender neck. Tho stories that a California lion can carry away a deer have abundant proof. It was once tho fortune of a hunter to follow tho plain, broad trail of the heavy pads for half a mile and then come suddenly on the placo where tho killer slopped to rest. There In plain outline was the imprint of the deer's body; but for that whole distance tho Hon had carried it well up and clear of the ground. |