I heard Mr. Vaux narrating a fight with a cougar which killed two of his best dogs during the winter just passed, and before we retired it was understood that we would give the haunts of this same old cougar our first attention.
As is the tendency of falling bodies, the carcass of the cougar showed an inclination to revolve.
Accordingly, the fugitive remained as motionless as a statue, his eyes fixed upon the dreaded brute, ready to make for his gun the instant the cougar showed any sign of making for him.
The head of the cougar was close to the trunk of the tree, and he had maintained the attitude hut a few seconds when he started forward again and continued until he vanished from view.
The cougar had departed, and they returned to claim their breakfast.
The guttural growl wound up with something like a hoarse yelp, and the cougar made what might be termed his death-leap.
The cougar could leap among the limbs as easily as a cat bounds from the floor into the chair.
The cougarclearly meant fight, and assumed the offensive without a second's hesitancy.
Fred, who had heard fabulous stories of the "smelling" powers of all wild animals, feared that the cougar would scent him out, but he showed no evidence of his ability to do so.
The cougar continued his slow, cautious advance, apparently unaware or uncaring for the deadly weapon aimed at him.
That looks very much like the place where the cougarwas waiting for me, but I didn't think there were enough in this country to furnish one for every bush.
Over and over rolled the combatants, the dogs without a sound--the cougar uttering muffled screams, its great paws beating the air.
If that's the way they get cougar skins, I'll roam through life without one, and be perfectly contented with my lot.
Some of the best cougar hounds I nave ever seen were trained wolves, working with a pack of regular hounds, of course," he explained.
If the cougar is going to eat any of them, he probably has them by this time.
Lige Thomas's rifle roared out a hoarse protest, and at the end of its leap the cougar lurched forward and fell dead.
As the big cat leaped, Mustard fastened his fangs into the beast's left leg, and was carried along with the cougar in its mighty spring.
It's a cougarstampeding them so he can catch them himself.
Lige had failed to bring down thecougar and every one of the ponies had disappeared.
The cougar never attacks man but preys on deer, horses, calves, etc.
A male cougar weighs one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds; a few have been taken over that.
Mr. Cartwright was wholly unarmed; he tried to alarm the cougar by a wild outcry, but to no purpose, so far as the cougar was concerned.
The cougar is a native of this State and can be found where dense thickets and dark forests exist.
But let me be understood that when he is pressed by hunger and famished for want of food, I do consider the cougar a dangerous animal.
About midnight, for fear that wolf or cougar might find the portion left on the mountain side, they took my trail to where it was, and brought it in.
On several of these occasions I have found that a cougar had come upon my trail shortly after I had entered the hills, and had stealthily and continuously followed me up to within seven, or eight rods of the point of my return.
Passing across the mouth of a cove in the hills, we heard to our left a noise, and looking in that direction, we saw a female cougar and a mealy-nosed brown bear engaged in a bloody battle.
On his return late in the afternoon, he met a large cougar in the snow-beaten trail.
He had proceeded about a mile-and-a-half on his journey when, in a dense fir and cedar forest, he met a cougar in the trail.
When the animal came near he stood sideways to the brute; and when the cougar made a spring, he presented his left arm and the cougar seized it midway between the wrist and the elbow, and pushed him hard to throw him off his feet, but failed.
Summoning up all his energy, he struck the second blow on the nose of his enemy, and while it drew blood the cougarstill held on.
Because," said the Major, "I know that the laws of gravitation would bring that cougar down.
Being a strong and muscular man, and his right arm being free, he struck the cougar on the nose, a hard blow with his clenched fist.
The cougar released his hold on the bleeding arm and, dazed somewhat, disappeared in the surrounding forest.
Sumichrast; "does this fellow want to prove that a cougar will attack a man?
The cougar had been struck in the forehead, and no longer breathed.
They quickly rose from their cougar skin and panther's pelt, caught the bogus sailors, and quickly robbed them of their borrowed clothes.
The howl of cayote and cougar succeed the silver bugle, calling to the banquet of blood.
Tom had cut the cougarloose from Gale's rope and pulled him to one side of the trail.
Behind her the rope pulled the cougar clear from Jim.
Have you asked Cougar and Wolf, Bear and Badger and Wolf to use their medicines to harden the earth?
He carries a bow and arrows, the quiver being of cougar skin, hanging over his shoulder, and he holds his bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right.
But before he could waken the sleeping Bear and Cougar and Snake, Coyote had almost reached the upper world.
For four successive nights the cougar came and feasted on venison, but after that the Kitten never saw him or heard of him again.
But twenty feet away was the spot where the cougar had come down on all-fours, only to leap forward again like a ricochetting cannon-ball; and twenty-five feet farther lay the greater part of the carcass of a deer.
About midnight the cougar appeared, and after he had eaten his fill and gone away again the Kitten slipped down and ate some more.
For several days after this mishap it was impossible for him to hunt, and he would certainly have starved to death if it had not been for a cougar who providentially came to the Glimmerglass on a short visit.
I have had many trying experiences of one kind and another, and hunted many different kinds of game, but none ever harassed my soul as the cougar has.
The Cougar It was upwards of twelve years ago that I had been down to one of the Rio Grande River towns herding up Mexicans, whom I expected to aid me in discovering gold where none existed.
The average camp dog runs to cover when a cougar is awakening the echoes of the mountain.
I do not think the bronco is as fearful of the cougar as of the bear, at least my experience has not been such.
At that time my experience with the cougar had been sufficient to put me in an uncertain frame of mind as to just what to expect of the creature.
Be that as it may, on the particular day of which I write I accidentally ran across the only cougar I ever have killed which gave me a fight and stampeded my horse, so that I was obliged to foot it into camp.
Between ourselves, I do not think hunting thecougar is very much sport.
Throwing the bridle rein over my arm, I slipped in a cartridge, and was just pulling down on him when the cougar started off at a swinging trot to one side at right angles to where he had stood, and through some small quaking aspens.
There were a few wolf and cougar skins and one peccary head; but there was no satisfactory way of making measurements of any of these.
I have killed but one cougar and two peccaries, using but one cartridge for each; all three were close up.
A cougar has been known to carry off a little child," said Dave.
He was not more than five or six paces from me," writes Crockett, "and was eying me as an epicure surveys the table before he selects his dish, I have no doubt the cougar looked upon me as the subject of a future supper.
The cougar wasn't long in making up his mind what to do, nor was I neither; but he would have it all his own way, and vetoed my motion to back out.
Looking over the bank, he saw the dead body of the cougar lying there, and felt that he had much cause of gratitude that he had escaped so great a danger.
The cougar both bit and clawed him, and tore his mouth, breaking out three teeth.
Thus far we had seen but one dog as good as the ordinary cougar hound or bear hound in such packs as those with which I had hunted in the Rockies and in the cane-brakes of the lower Mississippi.
When the cougar broke from the bushes, the Indian rode after her, and threw his bolas, which twisted around her hind legs; and while she was struggling to free herself, he brained her with his second bolas.
I told him, Yes, that I had found that the cougar was practically harmless to man, the undoubtedly authentic instances of attacks on men being so exceptional that they could in practice be wholly disregarded.
A cougar not only has fangs, but talons that can rend flesh more terribly than the cogs of a machine, and strength to make the air hum under his paw as he strikes it down.
But others, knowing how a hunter is brought in occasionally with almost all human resemblance gone from him because a cougar charged in his death agony, think this is unfair to the larger animal.
Once he found the traces of an old kill, where a cougarhad dined and from which the buzzards had but newly departed.
He sprang as a cougar springs, incredibly fast and with shattering power.
While it is an extremely difficult thing to shoot at a cougar leaping from the thicket, a tall man standing on a trail presents an easy target.
It is usually the most unmitigated folly for a cougar to chase a deer against which he has missed his stroke; and it is also quite fatal to his dignity.
It wasn't exactly summer, because already a little silver sheath of ice formed on the lakes in the morning; and the days were clamping down in length so fast that Whisperfoot the cougar had time for a dozen killings in a single night.
Before one hundred yards had been traversed, he could better understand the joy the cougar takes in his hunting.
But the cougar always saw to it they didn't do it a second time.
A wolf, for instance, can simply drift when it wishes, and the silence of a cougar is a name.
Then forgetting everything but his anger and disappointment, the great cougar opened his mouth and howled.
She had whirled to answer Dan's cry just as the cougarleft the ground.
Hurled to her face in the trail, she did not see the cougar sprawl on the earth beside her.
A cougar can run swiftly, but a deer is light itself.
The loudest came from Wah-wah-o-be, as the cougar made a convulsive effort to reach his rash assailant, for over and over went Ping in spite of all his bracing.
He saw his cougar brought in and skinned, and he ate a piece of the broiled meat cooked for him by Wah-wah-o-be.
Cal stood still, mainly because no time was given him for doing anything else, but the cougar almost brushed his shoulder as it sprang by him.
He would have fared worse if the butt of the spear-shaft had not caught a better brace against the ground, so that the cougar did not fall upon him.
There were two or three more long rips made in Wah-wah-o-be's woollen treasure and then the cougarlay still.
They had been dreadfully frightened; as much so as the poor cougar himself, and they would have cowered in any hole just as he did.
No wonder a poor cougar should be in a hurry to get under safe cover if he had any clear idea that all this was coming.
He did not say so, for he was a young warrior who had already slain a cougar and had eaten the cougar's heart, well roasted, and it did not become him to show any signs of fatigue or suffering.
She was worthy to be the wife of a chief, however, for when the cougaralighted almost in front of her, she promptly threw the blanket over him.
Ping got an arrow ready, and felt very much like a young cougarwaiting for an opportunity to spring.
Ping's cougar was regarded as capital game, the best kind of meat in the world to Indian tastes, as far as he would go.
The frightened cougar had not thought of a trap, when he cowered in a little hollow behind a rotten log.
My mule was highly nervous about firearms, and having to restrain her antics by putting my arm through the bridle rein, her snorting skittishness both at the rifle and the cougar disturbed my aim and my shot went a trifle under.
Presently I saw a cougar sitting upright behind a big log, calmly staring at me, so I dismounted and sent a Winchester bullet in his direction.
No cougar came, but on the third night a scornful grizzly swallowed the deer meat as a tidbit, and got a bullet in the neck for his carelessness.
The fourth cougar did not sustain a severe wound and fled up the mountain side, but Dick tracked him by the trail of blood that he left, overtook him far up the slope, and slew him with single shot.
The cougar suddenly bunched himself up and there was a flash of tawny fur as he shot through the air.
But he and Albert ran a little wall of brush off on either side in order that the cougar, if cougar it were, should be induced to approach the muzzle directly in front.
They baited the trap gun once more, hoping that a fifth cougar might prove rash enough to dare it.
He would not have been a cougar if he had not made a spring in seizing upon his prey.
Tell you what, Steve, I don't care much for it myself, but the Lipans would rather eat that cougar than the best venison ever was killed.
He did not miss; but a cougar is not like a deer, and it takes a good deal more to kill him.
In cougar hunting the shot is usually much the least interesting and important part of the performance.
We saw no signs of any cougar being injured in the struggle; the prey was always seized suddenly and by surprise, and in such fashion that it could make no counter-attack.
We had good food; but the only fresh meat we had was the cougar meat.
At about eleven we struck a cougar trail of the night before.
Finally the cougar would tire of the play, and then it would take Pot by the back of the neck, carry him off, and put him down in his box by the German sock.
This California sabretooth was not taller than a big cougar or leopard, but was probably as heavy as a fair-sized lion.
Then it would seize Pot in its fore paws and toss him up, catching him again; while Pot would occasionally howl dismally, for the young cougar had sharp little claws.
Before we reached him the cougar leaped from the tree and tore off, with his big tail stretched straight as a bar behind him; but a cougar is a short-winded beast, and a couple of hundred yards on, the hounds put him up another tree.
It is absolutely safe to walk up to within ten yards of a cougar at bay, whether wounded or unwounded, and to shoot it at leisure.
Bender's nod incarnated self-effacement, but he bristled when the Cougar suggested that Molyneux might not treat her rightly, and his scowl augured a quick widowhood in such premises.
Followed a yell, a piercing cry suitable to the animal after which the Cougarwas named.
Having, a week later, delivered the new hired man, a strong young Swede, Bender delivered his real opinion with dubious head-shakings while carting the Cougar away.
Driving homeward, Helen opened the subject just where the Cougar had left it.
To the Cougarhe gave orders that the red teamster was to load last.
It was clear and sharp as the clatter of a boy's stick along a wooden paling, and the Cougar whispered: "It's sure him.
At first she had found it extremely difficult to realize the full meaning of the letter which the Cougar had brought in from the camp early that morning.
If the Cougar stole into a Rocky Mountain camp, a bunk was immediately reserved for his big affinity.
The Cougar was also there, and from dubious head-waggings the two relapsed into thoughtful acquiescence as Carter unfolded his plans.
That night, if such things be, theCougar was joined, after his years of suffering, in perfect knowledge with his "little girl.
Not till we wet your wedding," theCougar interjected, dryly.
The deer were feasting on new grass down in the lowlands, the wolverines and cougar were sneaking homeward after the night's hunting.
El Senor Don Cougar and his senora lived here, too, until they went into the sheep business with Surly Brown's new flock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cougar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
