The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
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ciliating, as does that of the domestic cat when watching mouse hole.
 The beast evidently then saw me for the first time, and, as is natural to the species, instinctively drew back, as if to fly from the presence of man. It was my beautiful mare the cougar coveted, but seeing me she deferred the fatal spring which she had contem- plated at the moment her eyes first met mine.
 I soothed Petulama as best I could, but her trembling was not in the least abated, though she rubbed her nose against my coat sleeve, as was her wont whenever I caressed her. She seemed little more passive-tht is, she did not attempt those frantic jumps in her efforts to get away that at first characterized her terrible fright when she smelled the cougar or by some instinct became aware of it's proximity,
 l cursed my luck for not bringing my revolver with me, or some sort of arms by which might have killed the inn pudent beast, and vowed that would never again be guilty of such stupidi- " iSlG WdS tlO uoS, AOWCNtlt VI dulging in vain regrets; what I had to do, and do quickly, was to get away from there as soon as possible, for I did not know how soon the ferocious brute, nearly famished with hunger, | maybe, might make an effort to fasten 1 it's horrid claws into the Hanks of my mare, ignoring my presence entirely 1 So I hurriedly knocked the tobacco out of my pipe and, stroking Petaiu- ma on the shoulder, monted her as rap idly as I ever had before in my life, and was no sooner seated firmly in the saddle than without a word or other I impulse from me, she made a bolt down the trail that nearly threw me l seeming to shrink convulsively in a frantic effort to look behind her. 1 I sympathetically turned my head 1 around and gazed at the bare hilltop this side of the blasted cedars, and to my horror saw those great green eyes i but a few rods behind me, following my trail with sort of crouching, crawling motion, all ready, evidently, | to spring the moment it had covered the right distance.
 When I noticed that the cougar was crawling in it's crouching attitude be- hind me, I had presence of mind 1 enough to think if I refined in my i horse and made her walk it would ! impress the cougar with the fact 1 that I was there as we'll as the animal 1t wanted to devour for it's late supper. I could thwart its designs as I felt confidetial that, where I had first seen
 the cougar In a narrow valley, sur 1 rounded by lofty mountains, heavily timbered, the government had erected
 blockhouse and a corral, in which
 were herded a number of horses and mules, to be used as relays between the military posts. I hoped that I should be able to make that point in about | two hours from the cluster of cedars
 but now that the cougar had enter-
 ed as a factor in my calculations, l
 did not know whether I should reach the blockhouse at all, or maybe only I on foot, with my beautiful mares
 bones left on the trail, picked clean by
 the yicoious beast that was following me.
 True to it's instincts, it was really
 afraid of me. succeeded with great
 difficulty, however, in coaxing my mare into slow walk, the effect of which resulted as I surmised it would. The
 cougar ceased at once it's fearful bounds, and settled into shambline
 sort of gait, dropping further behind
 me at the moment
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