"I am going to stop right where I am until there's light enough to trail them by.

Do you know anything better, Tom ?" "No," said the man from Okanagan.

"Still, I'm not quite as good at thinking just now as I would like to be.

The last time I felt like this was when Siwash Bob took the back of the axe to me.

I figure that was a panther." "Yes," said Alton; "it was a panther." "Well," said Okanagan, "did you ever hear of one that went for a horse close up with a tent before ?" "I have," said Alton, "seen a panther that turned on a man who wanted to get a shot at it in the undergrowth." "Oh, yes," said Okanagan.