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cougar spat its vicious hate at the newcomer.
Its long yellow brown tail slashed back and
forth in anger as it steadied itself on the
high limb. Jimmy raised his .32 Special
carbine to his shoulder sighting on the head.
Just for a second he hesitated before the
highpower rifle splintered the silence of
the timber.

The cat convulsed and sprung away from
the tree. Down from the height it crashed,
its limber body twisting frantically in the
air as it fell. It landed on its feet, wounded
and squalling, dangerous with the super-

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viciousness of a frightened animal. Pete
made a spring for it before Jimmy could
stop him. The cougar turned and tried to
slink into the brush.

Jimmy shot again, and the body of the
cougar convulsed again as the shock of a
high-power bullet hit it. Down it went
among the short brush twitching and vomit-

ing blood. Pete, furious after his long lone:

wait with the killer, sprung on top of it
snarling and slashing with his long fanged
teeth.

“Get him, Pete,” encouraged Jimmy, en-
joying the sight.

Reluctantly, he pulled the dog from the
dying carcass, and as his hand came away
from Pete’s chest a sickening feeling hit
him in the stomach. Turning the dog gently
around he lifted its head. Across the power-
ful shoulder muscles, reaching deep into
the chest cavity, the wicked slash of the
killer cougar’s claws had ripped a terrible
gash exposing the lungs and covering the
dog with its own gore. Pete must have had
to tackle the mountain lion on the ground
before treeing it, as the cougar had not been
able to claw the dog since the shooting.

Immediately Jimmy set out for the near-
est farmhouse, forgetting the freshly killed
cougar in his worry over the wound re-
ceived by Pete. Once at the settlement land-
ing Jimmy hired a special launch to rush
Pete to the Alert Bay hospital. To him
there was nothing more precious than the
life of his dog, for regardless of affection,
the cougar hunter is only as good as his
hounds—and Pete was one of his best.

At the hospital, the doctor sewed up the
wounds and spoke glumly.

“That dog is lucky to be alive.”

“Is he going to be all right, do you
think?” asked Jimmy hopefully, genuine
worry in his tone.

“T think so. It will just be a matter of
rest from now on.”

“Thanks, doc,” said Jimmy thankfully.

He returned to Malcolm Island for his
kit. Ashore he met Mr. Turner, the farmer,
who resided at Miller’s Bay near where he
had killed the cougar.

“That sure was a big cougar, Mr. Dewar.
I heard your dog barking at him for a couple
of hours before I heard you shoot it.”

“You mean you heard him barking in one
place for two hours?” asked Jimmy
curiously.

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