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Glancing quickly at the tree, he saw that the branch had whipped right down against the trunk. The limb had not entirely broken loose, but swayed from several sustaining wood filaments. The ocelot, still hugging the limb, was clawing frantically at the main trunk of the tree to get a new hold there to keep from a tumble. "It won't do to stop, I see that," murmured Jack.
Now and then a wolf would approach, or a puma, or ocelot; but a shout would send them to the rightabout. As soon as daylight appeared, with the aid of Jup, who accompanied me, I succeeded in getting to the top of a tall pine. On looking out I was convinced, from the clear green to the north of the lake, and from its flat appearance, that it was swampy.
His mode of defence is that which has been described, and which is quite sufficient against the tiger-cat, the ocelot, and all the smaller species of feline animals. No doubt the old female would have proved a match for the puma had she not been thrown off her guard by his seizing upon her young.
"I trust so with all my heart," answered Jenny. At last some favorable reports came in and then the load of nitrates was sold at a fair profit. Of the amount Jack got several hundred dollars, the rest going to the captain of the <i>Elizabeth</i>. Jack and the Ocelot The one most satisfied with the result of this first cargo of nitrate was Captain Hillgrove.
It was not ten feet to the bank of the ravine. Jack lost all interest in the ocelot as he thrilled at a startling discovery. "Quicksand!" he breathed hastily. "There is not a moment to lose!" Our hero tugged to get the sunken foot free. He succeeded. Then, half-dancing about, he threw himself flat. His idea was to make a hurried scramble for the bank on hands and knees.
He swung both feet to one side of the limb, held on only by his fingers, and planned to get to its end hand over hand. Snap! Jack hurried progress, but it was no use. He saw the ocelot crouch and hug the limb. It gave way at its base. Jack let go. He landed directly on the smooth, sandy bottom of that portion of the ravine. He struck the ground upright, squarely with both feet.
They included big and little white egrets and also the mauve and pearl-colored heron, with a partially black head and many- colored bill, which flies with quick, repeated wing-flappings, instead of the usual slow heron wing-beats. In the warehouse were scores of skins of jaguar, puma, ocelot, and jaguarundi, and one skin of the big, small-toothed red wolf.
Nuthatch, of Japan, intelligence of; Indian. Obedience, value of. Observation, powers of, possessed by birds. Occupations, sometimes a cause of diminished stature; effect of, upon the proportions of the body. Ocelli, absence of, in female Mutilidae. Ocelli of birds, formation and variability of the. Ocelot, sexual differences in the colouring of the. Ocyhaps lophotes. Odonata.
He had loaned his hunting knife to a friend when they first started and his pistol had been dropped in the woods. In his pocket was a small pocket knife. He was groping for this when the ocelot, that had for a minute or two stood perfectly motionless, made a forward movement. It was not a spring or a glide, but a rush. Jack knew why they called this species the Honey Eater.
Word traveled slowly by horses and mules and carts. There came small news from that far-off country, half tropic, covered with palms and crooked dwarfed growth of mesquite and chaparral. The long-horned cattle lived in these dense thickets, the spotted jaguar, the wolf, the ocelot, the javelina, many smaller creatures not known in our northern lands.
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