As he tried to sing: - I war the mightiest hunter that ever ye see Till that thar catamounttuk arter me!
The Massachusetts and Connecticut forces were guided to the camp of the Green Mountain Boys while the leaders held a conference at the Catamount Inn in Bennington.
The horse thundered up to the door of the Catamount Inn and Nuck's wild halloa brought a night-capped head to the window instantly--that of the innkeeper.
The night-owl's hoot was intermittent; a lone wolf howled mournfully on the hillside; in the swamp a catamount screamed as it pounced upon its prey.
His gun was empty and the prospect of an encounter with the catamount would have quenched the courage of the bravest.
News of the Westminster affair had preceded him and the Catamount Inn was thronged with earnest men discussing the matter and various other news-packets which had lately come from other colonies.
The body of the catamount landed just where he had stood; but then rolled off the log and disappeared in the rushing stream, while the timber itself crashed instantly into one of the larger boulders.
The wind began to moan in the tree-tops; far away the mournful scream of the catamount broke the silence again.
Yet they were so excited by the prospect of the forthcoming battle with the Yorkers that even Nuck's adventure with the catamount was lightly passed over.
As he saw it, Enoch believed his duty to point to the Catamount Inn, and we have seen how quickly a company was formed there for the chase of the Yorkers and their prisoner.
Seems strange that you sh'd have such a caper here with that catamount after what happened only last spring, doesn't it?
Dark as it was Enoch could even distinguish the very tree out of which the catamount had sprung at him, and the murmur of the hurrying waters down the rocky bed reached his ear.
A catamount would tear you to bits with his great claws before you could run!
All at once he recollected that catamounttolling the men out with a child’s cry, and his heart stood still.
She said she could not play on the piane, nor sing like a nightingale, but she could outscream a catamount and jump over her own shadow; she had good strong horse sense and new a woodchuck from a skunk.
He had the skull-bone of a catamount for a snuff-box, and he was dressed like he had been used to seeing hard times.
You may take in timorsome gals in the settlements, with your catamount whine, but the ears of a man can tell truth from ontruth.
The catamount is actyve I know, but its legs can't keep pace with a woman's wishes.
Will your grand looks, or Hist's tears and beauty, change a wolf into a squirrel, or make a catamount as innocent as a fa'an?
Ay, but it might not be wise, always, to let the catamountknow it," growled March.
But there was one source of profound satisfaction,--the catamount had been killed.
Oowikapun dropped to the ground and carefully looked for the tracks of the game that this fierce catamount was pursuing, but to his surprise he could not discover the footprints of any animal.
But taking it all in all, that first evening spent around the camp fire on Catamount Island was rather enjoyable.
To his mind it seemed to imply that the mysterious dweller of the strange cabin on Catamount Island must be an escaped convict, a desperate ruffian, who might take a notion to murder them all in their sleep.
They called itCatamount then, like they do right now.
And no wonder Max felt amused, for what he had seen spread across that page, in letters that were heavily underscored, was this wonderful title: "Programme for meals during six more days to be spent on Catamount Island!
Indeed, if Catamount Island did have a bad name, it seemed to deserve all that.
They knew, of course, how the campers expected to stay there on Catamount Island for a whole week; and the temptation to try and play a mean trick on Max and his chums had finally moved them to get a boat, and row all the way up here.
Tell you what it is, boys; I didn't believe much of it when they said it was ghosts up here on Catamount Island.
Did this cigarette cough mean that Ted and his two cronies were coming to play a practical joke on the campers of Catamount Island?
All sorts of dismal predictions were made by Herb, and those of his comrades who had been in his company at the time of their wild midnight flight from Catamount Island.
Looking up the river it was easy to see where the stream became narrow again, after spreading out into the broad bay where Catamount Island was situated.
In the first place there would have been three if it was the Ted Shafter crowd; and perhaps more if Herb had come up here to see whether we were really camping on Catamount Island.
However, there need be little fear that those three frightened boys would ever make a second attempt to land on Catamount Island, especially during the night time.
Boys, that catamount is the only animal that an Indian is skeered of.
With the fust shot that one of 'em fired the catamount made off.
It landed, not upon the catamount, but squarely upon the carcass of the doe, where, a fraction of a second before, the catamount had stood.
Not till he was well clear of the cedar swamp did the catamount remember that he was hungry.
Carrying his prize between his jaws, the catamount descended to the ground, growling and jerking savagely when the wriggling length got tangled among the branches.
Either catamount or lucerfee was respectfully regarded by the woodsmen.
Instantly the catamount sprang, taking the risk of catching a porcupine or a skunk.
Seen thus near together, catamount by lucerfee, they were obviously akin, yet markedly different.
The lynx, badly torn and bitten, but with no fatal injury, pounced upon the unresisting body of the catamount and mauled it till well assured of the completeness of his victory.
Raven found himself muttering, remembering the catamount yells and the axe.
He spoke, as soon as he was within hearing distance of a tone of ordinary volume, and what he said surprised Raven even more than the catamount calls of yesterday: "Be you saved?
Then he went round to the side door and knocked again, and called out several times, and the sound of his voice brought back to him, like a sickness, the memory of Tenney's catamount yell when he had heard it that day in the woods.
Actually he had believed the man was raging over snowy hillsides somewhere about, armed with his axe and uttering those catamount cries.
Was Tenney, with hiscatamount yells and his axe, to be ignored altogether, or should he reassure her by telling her the man had gone?
I was in no mind to trust myself in the deep gully, where the catamount might drop upon me before I could scramble out upon the other side.
All was white, when, like a breath, it passed, and I saw the rushing catamount not ten feet from me.
My turn for gloating had come now, for the catamount was crying with rage and pain.
After a while, it seemed to me, a catamountmight get tired of waiting for us to kill his meat, and would start in to kill it for himself.
At the end of the third day we found that the catamount had for a second time been following our trail--not only our trail, but also mine.
The previous severe winter had decimated the partridges, and big is the catamount that will tackle a moose.
