| Show 1 I 9 91 s sLetter Letter Y Edited by 5 Joseph Bucklin Bishop o ar y su sons ry S ip S A. A 6 j j 4 6 S a Sic i C I 4 I d dV xz V X K rr 5 i C K 1 L This picture was taken before Quentin was born barn Kermit is' is the baby GAR AND LYNX HUNT his inauguration as vice vicent nt went into the mated 1 ed a and aad d with t the he Zt zest t of at a big game me He Killed a ai i with It a a. knife Ted had loaned e on Colo oho Jan 1 14 1901 In railroad ad we Wf drove fifty ty 1 fie hp little mile frontier town of ere cre we wro met by the St a rn fine quiet hard hardy f fel- fel l- l h lio ynos now's his hii business thor thor- t L t mOTTling morning we started on C toile our luggage went by byI t I Goffs Goff's ranch We E started tart d and made our out WR way jS a 5 C went across s the fhe high II light nagged lulls hills until sunset cougar ugal and l. lynx or faFe ate called out here lion Him and andT T e first rat cat we put up gave p sf two hours hours' hasp Chace f and got KOt high h cliffs In the m 11 nong ng I some somo put ut up another and had good hours hour's run lun the dogs bavI bay bay- I Il lit ho tho glens rang again to tho thoa a ag az they hither f find And nd th L through ugh the ravines We e walked Ie lei tIp and and down steep j Tooka Took rock a c tree clad slopes slope where It seem m possible a a. horse could OP on the level le places we got smart gallops a At last the qt p a tree Then I saw a real reali I i 1 y ight Seven hounds had hading I ing the trailing while a a. large 1 i and Rod two l en cn collie and bull sta stayed ed I G G. Ui 1 running so IO close to his I h heel pIR that tI Le y continually ally 1 i 1 i I bumped into them which he accepted I with philosophic composure Then the I dogs proceeded literally to climb the 1 1 tree which was a many t many ked pinon one of ot th the named Tony got up certainly sixteen feet until the Ij lynx which looked like a huge and exceedingly ex exceedingly exceedingly ex- ex I malevolent pussy cat made vicious dabs at him I shot the lynx low so as not to hurt his skin I Yesterday we were in the saddle forten for fort t ten n hours The dogs ran Ian one lynx down and killed it among the the rocks after a vigorous scuffle It was in a ahole ahole hole and only tw two of pf them could get at It It- It This morning soon after starting out W we struck the col cold trail trall of ot a mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain lion The Thc hounds I about for n nearly arh two hours going going- up and nd down tho the great grat gorges gorge until we sometimes sometimes some some- times absolutely lost even the sound of the bl baying baling Then th they struck the struck the fresh trail where hero the cougar had killed a a. a d deer pr o over o r night In half halt an hour a I clamorous Y yelling told us they had overt l en the quarry for we had b been en riding up the slopes and along the crests wherever It was possible for the hors horses s to get footing tooting As we plunged and scrambled down towards the noise e Il Lof of my companions Phil P-hll Stewart stopped us us while he took a kodak of a a. rabbit labbit which sat at unconcernedly right beside our path Soon we saw the lion In ft n treetop with two of ot the dogs so BO high up among the branches that he was striking at them He Ho was more afraid of off us than of the dogs and as asson soon son as h he saw us he took a gr great at flying fly fly- log ing leap and andas was as off the pack close behind In a few tew hundred yards th they y i had him up another r tree tret Here I could have shot hot him hloi Tony climbed almost almo l lup up to him and then fell twenty feet out of ot the the- tree tree- but waited for Stewart to get g-ct a photo and he jumped again again- This time after fter a couple of ot hundred yards the dogs caught him and a great fight followed They could have killed him by hy themselves es but he bit or clawed four of them and for fear he might kill one I ran in and stabbed him behind behind behind be be- hind the shoulder thrusting the knife I you loaned me right Into his heart I have always wished to kill a cougar as I II I I did this one with dogs and the knife DOGS THAT CLIMB TREES Keystone Ranch January 18 1901 Darling Little Ethel I 1 have had great fun tun Most of ot the trip neither you nor Mother nor Sister would enjoy but you would all of ot you yoube yoube yoube be Immensely amused with the dogs There are eleven all told but really I only eight do much hunting These These I eight are all scarred with the wounds i they have received this very week In battling with the cougars and lynxes and they are always threatening to fight tIght one another but they are as affectionate affectIonate affectionate af af- toward men and especially toward me as I pet them a as our vur own o home dogs At this moment a l-ge l hound and a small halfbreed bulldog both of whom were quite badly wounded wound- wound ed pd this morning by a a. cougar are ShOVIng shoving shoving ing their noses into m my lap to be petted petted pet pet- ted and humming defiance to one an- an an other They are on excellent terms I an-I with the ranch cat and kittens The three chief fighting dogs doers who do not toll follow follow- ow the trail are the most affectionate affectionate affectionate of ot all and they climb trees trees' Yesterday W we got a big lynx In the top of a pinon tree tree tree-a a low spreading kind of ot almost pine pine almost thirty feet tall Turk the bloodhound followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed him up and after atter much sprawling sprawling sprawl sprawl- ing actually got to the very top with with- ing a couple of ot feet teet of at him Then when the lynx was shot out of ot the tree Turk after 30 a short scramble t jok tok a header down through the branches I landing with a bounce on his back Tony one of ot the halfbreed bulldogs i takes such headers on an average of at j t least once for every animal we put up upa up upa I a tree We Ve have nice little horses which climb the most extraordinary places you can Imagine Get mother mothel to show some of Gustave Gustavo Dores' Dores trees the trees I on these mountains look Just like them THE PIG NAMED MAUDE Keystone Ranch Hanch January 29 1901 Darling Little 1 thel You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch The most thoroughly Independent and self pos of them Is a large white pig ph j which we have christened Maude Iau e. e She goes everywhere re at nt h her r own will w she picks up scraps from tram the dogs who I ba bay dismally at her but know they have no right to kill 1111 h her r and then she I I eats the green alfalfa hay from tram the two mulch cows who live In the big corral with the horses One of or the dogs has just had a a. litter of ot puppies you jou would love them with their little wrinkled noses and squeaky voices To be c continued |
