Show impulse saved his life hank ander a veteran hunter along the great stretches of the rocky mountains made a trip to southern california in 1871 and ascended old baldy among his reminiscences the following related by himself stands out as the most singular one afternoon while picking his way carefully along the narrow ledge high up on the mountainside he came upon a sleeping lion that lay with its nose between its forepaws in a sunny angle of the rock grider was a dead shot raising his rifle softly to his shoulder he drew bead on the 1 on directly between the closed es he had killed many an mals of this sort and 1 new exactly where to the lead into its brain nothing aas surer than it he pressed the trigger the great cat pasa from sleep into instant death but agh some unusual impulse as strange as it was unaccountable grider lowered the muzzle of his weapon without shooting again he raised the rifle took deliberate aim and again lo 10 ered the gun w phout firing he could not explain the reason for this strange act nor why he backed softly off and retraced his way leav ing the 1 undisturbed he had nev er done such a thing before in all his mountaineering experience at anth he at down on the edge of a boulder and cog bated long and ser bously over the queer matter isow what in tb inder d d I 1 do that tora he a led hi aselt over and over one crack of my old gati n here and that cat v have been too dead to kid as sure as the sun sets over that dirty 1 atle pueblo down fonder and to brove it III just drop that eagle that has lit on that point of rock across the canoa he ra sed his rifle took quick aim at the b rd and pulled the trigger only a dill cl followed as the hammer the cartridge was a defective one |