The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-23
Hungry Mountain Lion
Whipped BY Sheep

have worked all right, too, ii something
hadn't gone wrong with my Winchester.
| am glad, though, that something did
80 wrong with the gun, for II 1t hadn't
all / q have got would. have been lot
of big horn mutton ana mountain lion 5
carcass. Now I've got this story To tell.
Il MD ON the opposite of the spot where
the mountain had been yanked In two by
sUme gigantic CONFUSION of nature CEN
turtles before, and, peering out over the
pasture beyond. L saw two of the biggest
Dig horns ! had ever seer feeding some
thing like mile away BY and by they
threw up their hands and stood a second
as If listening. Then if they'd had wings
they couldn't have come in my direction
any faster than they did, nor with mors
evident disdaln for the earth.
why did they get this gait on? Why,
behind EN- strobe a mountain lion. He
didn't stride, either. He just up and
bounced He was yearning for Zig horn
mutton, but the owners of that mutton
had no idea of letting him have IT, The
iggest of the two came straight toward
where / was lying. / Rugged myself.
Choice mutton for support / gloated.
And what a nice lions skin.'
1T was picture to see that big horn
come like a wave of the ocean toward, the
spot where it was intending tc start down
stairs. the lion bouncing along with his
tongue out. and his toe nails just more
than scratching gravel The big horn,
simply to aggravate the lion, 1t seemed
TO me, slowed up little, and when il had
come to within a rod of the split the
lion wasn't two jumps behind it.
II saw that my chance was just then.
end | pulled on the sheep. My gun
mapped. The big horn took the first step
on the stairs, so to speak. II never
thought that the mountain Hon would
have the nerve to try to follow. and
reither did l. But the lion did have the
nerve. all the same. He croucned a mo-
ment on the edge, and over he went.
was near the edge. and | lay flat and
looked into the chasm.
THE first step was something like
seventy-five feet down. The big horn had
landed on the shelf. and the lion was in
spaee, headed for the sheep. way down
there in the depth Did the lion light on
sheep. The sheep dropped down from
the step it was on down TO the next one
on the other side, fifty feet across and
maybe as far again further down.
THAT lion must have wanted some big
horr mutton monstrous bad for he
dropped down after that sheep. The big
horn just gave one ugly bieat and rose
up. 1t shot upward In the split and met
met him hard The sheep showed his
head and horns against the mountain
lions head, right there in tEat narrow
Mace, 1900 feet above the bottom. Tbs
lion gave a yell that seemed to shake
the rocks Then he doubled up like a hi
him he was a speck in the chasm. somer-
saulting along toward the bottom
"The big horn? The big horn turned
and took the next step below, and it was
so far down that the sheep looked no big
ger than a cat when it struck it. And or
be went down. step by step. and the
echoes of thet narrow canvon were Sc
choice that heard the big horn bleatina
with joy long after ! could see 1t NJ
more. Then ] was glad Inv gun HAD
acted up that way. for I'd rather have
seen that sight than had all the big horr
mutton there was, leeky or unleeky"