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The animal was , I presume , really a jaguar , and was a big cat three or four feet long . We were off again the next morning , looking forward eagerly to the camp for the night , which we expected would be at Chadron , and where our course would change to the north into Dakota again , this time on the extreme western edge , and carry us up to the mountains . Most of the day we travelled through a rougher country , and saw many buttes -- steep-sided , flat-topped mounds ; and in the neighborhood of Bordeaux the road wound among scattering pine-trees . We camped at noon near the house of a settler who seemed to have a dog farm , as the place was overrun with the animals . We needed some corn for the horses , and asked him if he had any to sell . He was a queer looking man , with hair the color of molasses candy , and skim-milk eyes . -LSB- Illustration : A Good Salesman -RSB- `` Waal , now , stranger , I jess reckon I have got some co 'n to sell , '' he said .