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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYKUM, UTAH detag to Intercept her leap. Even as her tected him. No human hunter could feet left the ground she seemed to care. whirl In the air, and the deadly talons have laid his plans with greater He had to cut the ridge, whipped down In vain. Then, cutting up the side of mindful of the wind. Then there was back in front, she raced down wind. a long dense thicket In which he It Is usually the most unmitigated might approach within fifty feet of folly for a cougar to chase a deer the lick, still with the wind in his against which he has missed his face. Just beside the lick was another stroke; and It is also quite fatal to hla deep thicket, from which he could dignity. And whoever doubts for a make his leap. minute that the larger creatures have His body lowered. The tall lashed no dignity, and that It Is not very dear back and forth, and now It had begun to them, simply knows nothing about to have a slight vertical motion that the ways of animals. They "cling to frontiersmen have learned to watch It to the death. But tonight one disfor. He placed every paw with con- appointment after another had crumsummate grace, and few sets of hu- bled, as the rains crumble leaves, the man nerves have sufficient control last vestige of Whlsperfoots over leg muscles to move with such Snarling In fury, he bounded astonishing patience. He scarcely after the doe. seemed to move at all. She was lost to sight at once In But when scarcely ten feet re- the darkness, but for fully thirty yards mained to stalk, a sudden sound he raced in her If he had pursuit. Ajvz pricked through the darkness. It came stopped to think. It would have been from afar, but It was no less terrible. one of the really great surprises of It was really two sounds, so close to- his life to hear the sudden, unmisger. He had a better way of knowing gether that they sounded as one. takable stir and movement of a large, a chill at the end of his whiskers. Neither Blacktall nor Whlsperfoot The- - little, breathless night sounds living creature not fifteen feet distant had any delusions about them. They In the thicket in the brush around him seemed to In strange madden him. They made a song to recognized them at once. He didnt stop to think at all. He no man may under that ways the skin him. a strange, wild melody that even on the extreme unlikelididnt f reports of a hood puzzle such frontiersmen as Dan and Len- describe, as the In her flight from a of doe halting seen nox could not experience. A thousand rifle. Just today Blacktall had Is doubtful a whether, In It cougar. same his doe this fall bleeding when smells brushed down to him on tno had he the perceptions any thickets, from a wind, more potent than any wine or sound, only louder, spoke Its movethe creature other of than lust. He began to tremble all over covert from which Bert Cranston had ments. He was running down wind, In with rapture and excitement. But un- poached her and he left the lick so it Is certain that he didnt smell it one bound. like Cranstons trembling, no wilderIf he saw It at all. It was just as a rifle Terrified was the by though he ness ear was keen enough to hear the' shot, still Whlsperfoot sprang. But shadow, sufficiently large to be that leaves rustling beneath him. the distance was too far. His out- of a deer. It was moving, crawling as stretched paw hummed down four Woof the hear sometimes crawled, CHAPTER II. feet behind Blacktalls flank. Then seemingly to get out of his path. And at It forgetting everything but his anger Whlsperfoot leaped straight Shortly after nine oclock, TVhlsper-foo- t and was a perfect shot - He landed It the cougar great disappointment, encountered his first herd of deer. high on Its shoulders. His head lashed But they caught his scent and scat- opened his mouth and howled. The was done down, and the white teeth closed. All almost long night tered before he could get up to them. the long life of his race he had known when he further of got game. sight He met Woof, grunting through the a Once flock of grouse exploded with that pungent essence that flowed forth. underbrush, and he punctiliously, but with wretched spirit, left the trail. A a roar of wings from a thicket; but His senses perceived It, a message nerves to his brain. And fight with Woof the bear was one of they had been wakened by the first shot along his In of he then dawn the and he whisper wind, opened his mouth In a high, the most unpleasant experiences that no had chance at Soon them. really squeal of utter, abject could be Imagined. He had a pair of after moon set. the terror. this, arms of one which strong embrace of The larger creatures of the forest He sprang a full fifteen feet back a cougars body meant death In one are as almost In absolute helpless Into the thickets; then crouched. The shriek of pain. Of course they long didnt fight often. They had entirely darkness as human beings. It Is very hair stood still at his shoulders, his well to talk of seeing In the dark, but claws were bared; he was prepared opposite interests. The bear was a from berry-eate- r and a and cal the nature of things, even verti- to fight to the death. He didnt underpupils may only respond to light. stand. He only knew the worst single the cougar cared too much for his cwn life and beauty to tackle Woof in a No owl or bat can see In absolute terror of his life. It was not a doe darkness. It became increasingly like- that he had attacked In the darkness. hunting way. A fawn leaped from the thicket In ly that Whlsperfoot would have to reIt was not Urson the porcupine, or front of him, startled by his sound In tire to his lair without any meal even Woof. It was that Imperial masthe thicket. The truth was, Whlsper- whatever. ter of all things, man himself. But still he remained, foot find made a wholly unjustified he had attacked Landy Hilhoping misstep on a dry twig, just at the against hope. After a futile fifteen dreth, lying wounded from Cranstons minutes of watching a trail, he heard bullet beside the trail. Word of the a doe feeding on a hillside. Its foot- arson ring would never reach 'the setfall was not s Tveavy as the sturdy i tlements, after all. tramp of a buck, and besides, the bucks would be higher on the ridges this time of morning. He began a cautious advance toward It. Setting a forest fire. For the first fifty yards the hunt was In his favor. He came up wind, and the brush made a perfect cover. (TO BE CONTINUED.) But the doe unfortunately was standing a full twenty yards farther, in an They Are Hard to Get open glade. Under ordinary circumNearly all of our United States stances, Whlsperfoot would not have moths and butterflies are easily capmade an attack. A cougar can run tured, but not so with many of the group, swiftly, but a doer Is light itself. The tropical ones of the big cat would hare preferred to linger, says the American Forestry Magazine a motionless thing In the thickets! of Washington. The South American hoping some other member of the deer species of Morpho are magnificent Inherd to which the doe must have be- sects. The great orange longed would come Into his ambush. species are fully nine inches In expanse But the hunt was late, and Whisper-foo- t and have a lofty, sailing flight, while was very, very angry. Too many some of the species with broader and d times this night he had missed his shorter wings, such as the kill. In desperation, he leaped from M. menelaus, have a lower, but the thicket and charged the deer. very rapid flight through the forest, In spite of the preponderant odds and settle occasionally. The against him, the chnrge wrs almost a species very rarely come within success. He went fully half the dis- reach. tance between them before the deer Shared Fame With Friend. perceived him. Then she leaped. There seemed to be no Interlude of It Is said that virtually all the plays time between the Instant that she be- to which the names of Beaumont and held the dim, tawny figure in the Fletcher are attached were written by that In which her long legs pushed Fletcher alone. Beaumont was a out In a spring. But she didnt leap friend of Fletchers and lived with straight ahead. She knew enough of him,, they had a kind of David and the cougars to know that the great Jonathan affection for each other, and A Full Twenty Yards Farther. cat would certainly aim for her head Beaumonts name is said to have gone on the plays more for sentimental crucial moment. Perhaps It was the and neck In the same way that a leads a duck hop- - reasons than for any other. fault of Woof, whose presence had driven Whlsperfoot from the trail, and perhaps because old age and stiff- PERSIA LAND OF CULTURE a desire to nand down to futurity ness was coming upon him. But eternal feelings of certain great truths neither of these facts appeased his or remarkable events. These elevated Been a Favored Region From the anger. lie could scarcely suppress a Has are not due to climate, hisfeelings Very Earliest Age Capital snnrl of fury and disappointment. torians claim, pointing to the same Beautiful In Ruin. He continued along the ridge, still countries today where, Instead of simstealing, still alert, but his anger Inplicity and grandeur, a fondness for Persia ranks among the foremost of singularity and false refinement Is now creasing with every moment. The fact that Tie had to leave the trail again to ancient nations that have exercised the displayed. Detroit News. permit still another animal to pass, greatest Influence on the fates of Euand a particularly Insignificant one rope. It has been a region of culture Made Signally Conspicuous. too, didnt make him feel any better. from the earliest age, where traces of I took my mother and small sister This animal had a number of curious the pure religion of Zerdusht which to a motion picture theater. As It was stripes along his back, and usually did he brought among the nations from Impossible to find seats together, I left nothing more desperate than steal Mount Albordl, may still be recog- them, and found a seat near the ceneggs and eat bird fledglings. Whlsper- nized. ter of the theater. About the middle foot could have crushed him with one The people who Inhabit the southern of the performance I heard some one bite, but this was one thing that the side of the great ridge of hills have calling me. It was sister. She had great cat, as long as he lived, would always displayed greater inventive succeeded In escaping from mother, never try to do. He got out of the power and greater constancy In pre- and was looking for me. Not being way politely when Stripe-bac- k was serving their Institutions than the successful, she walked up near the orstill a quarter of a mile away; which tribes who dwell to the northward. chestra and began to call me and did was quite a compliment to the little The former they owe to the ease and not stop until I got up and went to aDimals ability to Introduce himself. leisure afforded them. by a most pro- her. Every one was smiling broadly Stripe-bacwas familiarly known as pitious climate and by their settled as I escorted her up the aisle. We a skunk. o habits, not being prompted by a rest- didnt see the rest of the Tribune. Shortly after ten, the mountain lion less spirit to a migratory life. had a remarkably fine chance at a The remains of the ancient Persian buck. The direction of the wind, the capital, Persepolls, as well as the An Impossible Fashion. trees, the thickets and the light were Egyptian, Thebes, and the ruins on the Skirts will no longer be tight." all In his favor. It was old Blacktall, higher peninsula of India, bear the exThe prohibitionists wish thaj o wallowing In the salt lick ; and Wills pression of majestic grandeur and of say the same of the men," perfoots heart bounded when he CDnce: OFTHE Do you know why ii s toasted To MARSLLz. self-contr- WHISPEFFOOT. Synopsis. Warned by his physician that he has not more than six months to live, Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennoxs son, B1U, and daughter, "Snowbird." Their abode Is in the Umpqua divide, and there Falling plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. From the first , Falling's health shows a marked Improvement, and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits Into the woods life as If he had been born to It. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of "nerve he saves Lennox's life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote-Lennodeclares he Is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Falling I, whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. Dan learns that an organized band of outlaws, of which Bert Cranston Is the leader, Is setting forest fires. Lanof dry Hildreth, a former memberturn the gang, has been Induced to states evidence. Cranston shoots Hildreth and leaves him for dead. far-carryi- honey-grubbe- :0 I Continued. r, g, For when all thiugs are said and done, there were few bigger cowards In the whole wilderness world than Whlsperfoot A good many people think that Graycoat the coyote could take lessons from him In this respect. But others, knowing how a hunter is brought In occasionally. with almost all human resemblance gone from him because a cougar charged In his death agony, think this Is unfair to the larger animal. And it Is true that a cougar will sometimes attack horned cattle, something that no American animal cares tcldo unless he wants a good fight on his pnws and of which the very though, would throw Graycoat into a spasm ; and there have been even stranger stories, if one . could quite believe' them. A certain measure of respect 'must be extended to any animal tlia will hunt the great bull elk, for to miss the stroke and get caught, beneath the churning, lashing, slashing, front hoofs Is simply razor-edge- d death, painful and without delay. But the difficulty lies in the fact that these things are not done in the ordinary, rational blood of hunting. What an animal does In Its death agony, or to protect its young, what great game it follows In the starving times of winter, can be put to neither Its debit nor Its credit A coyote will charge when mad. A raccoon will put up a wicked fight when cornered. A hen will peck at the hand that robs her nest. When hunting was fairly good, Whlsperfoot avoided the elk and steer almost as punctiliously as he avoided men, which Is saying very much indeed; and any kind of terrier could usually drive him straight up a tree. But he did like to pretend to be very great and terrible among the smaller forest creatures. And he was Fear Itself to the deer. A human hunter who would kill two deer a weeks would be jweek for fifty-twcalled a much uglier name than poacher; but yet this had been Whisper-foot- s record, on and off, ever since his second year. Many a great buck wore the scar of the full stroke aft-e- r which Whlsperfoot had lost his hold. Many a fawn had crouched anting with terror In the thickets at jjust a tawny light on the gnarled limb of a pine. Many a doe would grow and terrified at just his great-eyesmell on the wind. pungent Strange, ' He yawned again, and his fangs looked white and abnormally large In the moonlight. His great, green eyes were Btlll clouded and languorous from sleep. Then he began to steal tip the ridge toward his hunting jgrounds. It was a curious thing that jhe walked straight In the face of the soft wind that came down from the snow fields, and yet there wasnt a weathercock to be seen anywhere. 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