He stood up, but he shuddered nevertheless.
"Obed," he said gratefully, "you came just in time." "I surely did," said that cheerful artisan.

"A bullet in time saved a life like thine.

But you had already given him a bad wound." "What is he, Obed ?" "About the biggest and finest specimen of a black jaguar that ever ravaged a Mexican jungle.

I always thought the black kind was found only in Paraguay and the regions down there, but I'm quite sure now that at least one of them has been roaming up here, and he is bound to have kin, too.

Ned, isn't he a terror?
If he'd got at you he'd have ripped you in pieces in half a minute." Ned shuddered again.