The puma.
I need hardly say that by this time all the beasts with any friendliness in them had for Clare a little more than their usual amount of that feeling. But there was one between whom and him--I prefer who to which for certain animals--a real friendship had begun at once, and had grown and ripened rapidly till it was strong on both sides. Clare's new friend--and companion as much as circumstance permitted--was the same whose lonely gambols had so much attracted him the night he first entered the menagerie. The animal, whom Clare had taken for a young lion--without being so far wrong, for he has often been called the American lion--was the puma, or couguar, peculiar to America, with a relation to the jaguar, also American, a little similar to that of the lion to the tiger. But while
