They did their useful little services until it pleased the Lord Cheetah to come to his own.
She laced their journeys with a fantastic monologue telling in the third person what the Leopard and the Cheetah were thinking and seeing and doing.
Life pointed now wonderfully to the great time ahead when there would be a Cheetah cub in the world, and meanwhile the Cheetah loped about the wild world upon a mighty quest.
Even the cheetah had ceased its infant growlings as though it felt the tension in the quiet about him.
The huntsmen soon put it out of its agony, and it was carried off by the bearers; while the panting cheetah allowed its keeper quietly to slip the chain over its head and lead it away to its cage.
The cheetah meanwhile skimmed over the surface of the ground, as if requiring no rest for its feet.
The cheetah licks the salt, and losing the scent forgets the object which attracted its attention.
The khan gave a signal to the keeper, who slipped the leash, and the cheetah began to steal cautiously towards the herd, taking advantage of the bushes and high grass to conceal itself.
Should the deer once reach it and force its way through, even the persevering cheetah would have a difficulty in following.
While the rest of the deer escaped on either side, the one the cheetahhad fixed on had kept a straight course, now by the side of a nullah, now over the wiry grass, now through thick bushes.
A party of bearers followed, carrying in a cage a cheetahor hunting leopard, an animal which may be described as in size and shape between the hound and the leopard.
He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds, and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.
Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I dare say.
From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at our very window a long drawn cat-like whine, which told us that the cheetahwas indeed at liberty.
I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetahand a baboon.
A cheetah likes the warmth of a blaze and comes near the cultivator's watch fire in the field, calls him by name and devours him; it frequents where peacocks abound; it does not eat the victim that falls with the right side uppermost.
The cheetah lifted and met Nels, body against body, in mid-air--Skag heard the impact.
Any tiger he knew would have answered to his cool force, but the cheetah didn't.
Swinging along out of Poona toward the cheetah hills, Skag was buoyant with healthy energy.
The wall was moving forward surely--as surely as time--but the cheetah would reach him first.
Then it will be all like the cheetah hills to him.
You've made a strong argument for thecheetah as a fighter, Bhanah, but you don't seem to stand much for his character.
It was like the echo of his challenge to the cheetah as the wall of the waters loomed across the hills, above Poona.
Cheetah kittens are snared and broken at once by hard handling; meaning that it is not the cheetah himself, but what is left of him, one sees either in the kennels of the princes or in the foreign cages.
Stooping to examine Nels a moment and rising to glance at the wall, he spoke rapidly: "The Sahib has seen his Great Dane Nels kill a secondcheetah in one day.
The tailors will need till the rails are safe to get you fitted; and before the monsoon comes, I suggest that you take your hunter up into the cheetah hills.
Malcolm M'Cord declared that a veteran in the cheetah game would show himself master in any ordinary tiger affair.
There was no fear nor any lack of concentration in his work upon the cheetah beast.
So he laid it down reluctantly, at last; and straightened--to see a hunting cheetah coming toward him, not far away.
They likewise allege that the female cheetah never produces more than one litter of whelps.
They say that the cheetah places it in lumps beside him, and then gazes intently on the sun, till on turning his eyes on the clay, every piece appears of a red colour like flesh, when he instantly devours it.
When the cheetah was free the same mad scene occurred again as on the previous day.
My steward hesitated to approach the dog-wolf, and it was all in vain that I assured them that my cheetah was not dangerous.
I asked for a hammer in order to open the door of the cage which had been nailed down, thus keeping the poor cheetah a prisoner.
The sportsmen start off on horseback, carrying theCheetah either on a Horse, or in a carriage specially constructed for the purpose.
The Cheetah seizes its prey by a succession of bounds remarkable for their rapidity.
The Cheetah or Hunting Leopard forms the transition between the Cat and Dog families.
As soon as one is perceived, the hunters stop, the Cheetah is unfastened, and its eyes unbandaged and the game is pointed out to it.
In captivity, the Cheetah is familiar, gentle and playful, becoming greatly attached to those who are kind to it.
The custom of employing the Cheetah for hunting goes back to a very remote period, for the Arab Rhazes speak of it in the tenth century.
I saw matters well under way, and then went on to where I had seen a cheetah the day before.
The cheetahfollowed him, and him only, with most single-minded purpose.
Having done this, we led him and his companions to the spot where the cheetah and the remainder of the deer lay.
His companions quickly cut up the cheetah as we had done the deer, and divided the flesh among them.
We must leave the cheetah and the rest of the deer to the birds and beasts of prey which are sure to visit it before long," I observed.
The cheetah had settled the question whether the buck should die, for the poor creature was so mangled, though not killed outright, that we saw it would be a mercy to put it out of its sufferings.
But the weight of his victim was more than he had bargained for; the cheetah with a quick upward dash dislodged one of the great bird's talons, and, turning as quickly, caught the disengaged leg in his sharp teeth.
His trained leopard or cheetah had drawn the beast from his lair, and by cunning devices had led him on until the unfortunate lion was half-entrapped.
But that bounding antelope and that fleet-footed cheetahdistanced them all.
Next minute the samecheetah sat down by Frank's side, and purred to him, like a monster cat.
Unfortunately, conditions in Africa are not favorable for the use of automobiles in hunting, and no actual facts as to the speed of the cheetah are available.
So it is not wonderful that the cheetah loses its natural dash and is often left behind by the antelope.
No created being could resist the effects of hunger, want of sleep, and feminine scolding, and the poor cheetah becomes piteously, abjectly tame.
The young cheetah is not worth catching, for it has not learned its trade, nor can it be taught in captivity!
In some hunting pictures by Indian artists, the cart that bears the cheetah and his keeper is drawn by a pair of black-buck antelopes, and you often hear of the Nilghai also being trained to the yoke for Indian Princes.
At the wedding festivities of a Punjab chief the other day (March 1886) the guests were shown this sport, and the cheetah caught and killed a black-buck.
For the somewhat doubtful case of the cheetah (Felis jubata) see Var.
Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I daresay.
From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the cheetah was indeed at liberty.
He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.
The keeper then approaches, and throwing the Cheetah some pieces of raw meat, contrives to hoodwink and chain him again to his pad behind the saddle, on which he crouches like a dog.
If the Cheetah is not successful in catching an antelope before the herd takes flight, he never pursues them, but returns to his keeper with a discontented and sullen air.
During the whole time the firing lasted, I only caught sight of the cheetah once as he bounded from one thicket to another; but from the whistling and cracking going on all round, any one of us might have been shot a dozen times over.
Rocks, some of the villagers near at hand, or one of the Shikaries employed to look for game, brought in word that there was a cheetah to be had near at hand.
Before the cheetah was disposed of he had been hit thirteen times, but in no mortal part; the last ball had, however, struck him in the loins, which prevented any more of his rapid springs and bounds.
This led to a renewal of the invitation, on the part of the younger men, to join them in their cheetah and tiger expeditions, which at first, being no ball shot, I was not anxious to do.
The very next time you go after cheetah or tiger, I will go with you' (a shout of approval).
The wooden ladle was now produced as a lure, and after some hesitation the animal followed the man as he descended; the hood was adjusted over the eyes, and the cheetah was replaced within its cage.
On one occasion the cheetah was slipped at too great a distance, the herd being at least 350 yards ahead.
From this height the cheetahsurveyed the retreating herd of antelopes, and refused to descend when summoned.
When game is expected, the cheetah is taken from the cage, and occupies the outside seat upon the top, together with the keeper.
In an instant the cheetah was loosed; for a moment it hesitated, and then bounded forward, although the two bucks had disappeared.
When the meal was finished, the mask or hood was replaced, and the cheetah was once more confined within its cage, as it would not run again during that day.
A cheetah was now taken from its cage, and it at once leapt to the top, and sat with its master, who had released it from the hood.
The cheetah held back, and again the buck rushed in; but as we advanced, the poor little beast was evidently frightened at the people, and it turned to run.
We now observed that the cheetah not only slackened its pace, but it crept cautiously forward, as though looking for the lost game.
The old baboon had retired to the hills with his family; the springbok and the wart-hog had moved up Bulawayo way; the cheetah and the lynx had followed them.
To the wide and cruel corners of his mouth had come the calm of a cheetah devouring its prey.
In her ears was the hideousness of a threat that had fastened on her abruptly like a cheetah in the dark.
These things it was that paraded before her as she lay on the floor of the little room, felled by the hideousness of a threat that had sprung upon her, abruptly, like a cheetah in the dark.
