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Show IN VINCI IJLK COHJARj THAT ROAMS rnO'd PATACOMA TO 1 THE FAR NOIIIH. ri.1 Kill a lleer Alnm.1 le.talsns- on.ly. ll.il I .unity There I. m Sfiiltlr llrfere II. lillin I. Blsla - II linrelr Allnvk. Man. l-'ablin Hwiil-. th.. (o'lrar is a very Intei e-ting ero.ilure. It found from tho eolil. ilmoliite jil lux of l'ategonla to north nf the c.iiiinlian line, and liven alike nnii to; Hie hiiow-1:ii1 peaks of the An. Id nml In the nti anting forests for-ests nf the An.a.'.oii. Doubtlenn careful care-ful Iiivo..iIk.iHii lli din, lose several vary. ii- fo mn In n-t nii.mal fo unl ov--r ntieh Inini'iKe tru.tn of country, and living under mn It utterly diverse run-illtlonn. run-illtlonn. Hill in Its essential habits and tinlts, the big, slinking, nearly nnl-colorcd cat hi-oiiih to be much the name everywhere, whether living In mountain, open plain or forest, under arctic cold nr tioplc bent. When the nettlemeutH become thick. It retires to dense forcat, dark swamp, or Inacces-s Inacces-s b o nio.intn'n (.-nrgn, nnd moves about only ul night. In wilder regions It not Infrequently roams timing tho day and ventures freely In lo the open. Deer are Its customary prey where they are plentiful, bin ks. does and fnwns being killed Indifferently. I's-ually I's-ually the tleer Is killed ultnost Instantaneously, Instan-taneously, but occasionally there Is quite a scuffle. In which the cougar may get bruised, but never seriously. It is also the dreaded enemy of sheep, pigs, calves, and especially colls, and when pressed by hunger a big mule rougnr will kill a full grown horse or cow, monne or wapiti. No animal, tint even the wolf, is so rarely seen or so dinictilt to got without dni:s. On the other hnnd. no other wild beast of Ita sire In so easy to kill by tho aid nf dogs. There ore many contradictions contra-dictions In Its character. Like the American wolf. It Is certainly very much a.rnld of man; yet It liabltu illy follows the trail of the hunter nr solitary soli-tary IlllVi le- dtmglllK bin footnlepa. It- self-alwayn unseen. When liuntty It will s -lze nml carry off any dog; yet It will mm. times go up n tree when piirsu.il even by a sln.-le small dog wholly unnMc to do It the Ic'ist barm. It Is small wnnh-r that the uvcrngn frontier senior elioitl.l ctow to regir.l iiliiio.it wlih superstition the gnat fur-tlvo fur-tlvo cat which he never sees, but of whofe prowess Minister proof Is nome-llmes nome-llmes nfforiled by the deaths not nloue of his lesser stock, but even of his milk rows or saddle home. The consuls consu-ls ns large, as powerful and as for-mldnbly for-mldnbly armed as the Indian panther, and quite as well able to attack man; yet the Instances of Its having don so nr exceedingly rare. The vast majority ma-jority of tales to this effect are undoubtedly un-doubtedly Inventions. Hut It Is foolish to deny that such attucka on human beings ever occur. |
