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Title: The Big game of North America (microform) : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it
Identifier: cihm_16147 (find matches)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Shields, G. O. (George Oliver), 1846-1925; Caton, John Dean, 1812-1895
Subjects: Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
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touch of lt'rrii>lt' i-uiiisluiit-iii from tlin ft^et of ilin Cut in its On jiuothcr occasion, a geiitlenian by ilu:" name of Ilav- rison, and mysflf. with a pair of Foxhound puppies beh)ng- ing to hirn. started and ))ut uji, af.cr a t\vo-l»ouis' run, a huge nude ('at. A four-inch snow hiy on the ground: the day was still and clnai', and quite waiiu a line day for the sport. Wh came across the tracks of the animal where it had ))een rustling around on tlie previous inght. Igniting the puppies on the trail, we soon junipcd him from some huge roclvii where he liad l)een lying, sunning hinu-elf. In the run that followed, he tried his doubling tactics fonr or five times; but we being well mounted, and there being no fences to bother ns, ke))t close to die jiuppies, and \vorud l»ut them to "rights" when the Cat wtudd , *^tenipt its dodges. AVe also had with ns a Creyhound. When, after i'.bout two hours' chasing, this Greylionnd got siglit of the quarry, we witnessed some tall runiung for about two linn- dred yards. Then the old "'Tom"" ran np a shelhbark hickory-tree, and ensconced himself in a body-crotch about forty ft't above the ground. Fron» this perch, Harrison tundded i:im out, dead, with a load of Inickshot fi'oni an old Harper'3 Fei-ry musket which he carried. This "Wildcat was the largest ol the species I ever saw, and Avould have cleaned out, in a fair light, all three of our dogs.
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