Identifier: cu31924096989235 (find matches)
Title: The Roosevelt book; selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Presidents
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ar-ticular of nomenclature we are no worse sinnersthan other people. The English in Ceylon, theEnglish and Dutch in South Africa, and theSpanish in South America, have all shown thesame genius for misnaming beasts and birds. Bobcats were very numerous where we werehunting (in Colorado). They fed chiefly uponthe rabbits, which fairly swarmed; mostly cotton-tails, but a few jacks. Contrary to the popularbelief, the winter is In many places a time ofplenty for carnivorous wild beasts. In this place,for Instance, the abundance of deer and rabbitsmade good hunting for both cougar and bobcat,and all those we killed were as fat as possible, andin consequence weighed more than their inchespromised. The bobcats are very fond of prairie-dogs, and haunt the dog towns as soon as springcomes and the inhabitants emerge from their hiibernatlon. They sometimes pounce on highergame. We came upon an eight-monthsfawn—^very nearly a yearling—^which had beenkilled by a big male bobcat; and Judge Forci
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A BOBCAT.From a photog^aph taken in Colorado, January, 1901. The Bobcat 173 man informed me that near his ranch, a fewyears previously, an exceptionally large bobcathad killed a yearling doe. Bobcats will alsotake lambs and young pigs, and if the chanceoccurs will readily seize their small kinsman, thehouse cat. We found that the bobcats sometimes madetheir lairs along the rocky ledges or in holes inthe cut banks, and sometimes in thickets, prowl-ing about during the night, and now and theneven during the day. We never chased themunless the dogs happened to run across them byaccident when questing for cougar, or when wewere returning home after a day when we hadfailed to find cougar. Usually the cat gave agood run, occasionally throwing out the dogs bydoubling or jack-knifing. Two or three timesone of them gave us an hours sharp trotting,cantering, and galloping through the open cedarand pinyon groves on the table-lands; and theruns sometimes lasted for a much longer periodwhen the do

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