"Vengeance"
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9"x12", edition size 100 s/n
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The cougar gingerly but with great stealth,
silently creeps thru the moonlit snow. She is distraught and
on a mission. The year is 1875 at the head of Green River, Wyoming,
and she has been following a trail only she is aware of. Every
now and then she stops and listens, then picks up the trail again.
She is wary, but determined.
In the tent is a hunter and friend of
Teddy Roosevelt, Professor John Bache McMaster. In a make shift
box, he has two cougar kittens, which he had found abandoned
that afternoon. At least he thought they were abandoned. They
were playful and clumsy little critters and made much noise.
He desperately tries to calm them in his tent, but they are hungry
and scared.
Unknown to him, the she cougar has followed
him back to camp carefully keeping her distance. Now in the cover
of night, she is investigating the camp. She knows her kittens
are somewhere close, but cant be sure as she goes from
tent to tent. Rightfully fearful of man, she decides to hunker
down for the night; safe in the knowledge her offspring have
been found. She waits for them to be left alone so as to enable
their escape.
The professor has a fitful night with
his charges, although still unaware of the danger in which he
has put himself.
The next day he decides to stay at camp
along with the cook. It is afternoon; he happens to look up and
sees the mother cougar running fast, but silently down towards
them. Her eyes are wide and wild and her tail twitches. The ground
between him and the cat is quickly vanishing as he reaches for
his rifle and just manages to bring her down some twenty yards
away.
We now know that cougars and other big
cats will go to great lengths to save their young, indeed putting
their own lives at risk.
What became of the two kittens is unknown.
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