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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1906.
FIGHTING A PANTHER.
Cunning and Skill of the LitKe and
Agile Brute.
It was dark, and the windy dark
ness was full of the mysterious
noises of the jungle. My Bhikari and
I were huddled silently on a plat
form built in the boughs of a tree
on the edge of the jungle. Below
ns the undergrowth was black and
still, for the moon had not yet risen.
Suddenly there was a movement aa
though a portion of its blackness
had detached itself from the rest
and begun to creep away. Just at
that moment the moon rose and
revealed to us the lithe body of a
panther slinking through the under
growth. A shot rang out, and with
a yelp of pain the panther disap
peared into the bushes.
With the sunrise we descended
from the platform and began to
examine the panther's trail. The
effect of the shot was shown by the
patches of blood on the ground,
which led us through a couple of
hundred yards , of thick jungle.
After crawling on hands and knees
under the brushwood we reached a
narrow nullah. A little beyond
this we came upon the wounded
panther scaling a tree. I fired, but
the range was too long and the shot
proved futile. The disturbance had
the result, however, of startling the
animal into falling from the treo
to the ground.
' The shikari and I followed quickly
on its track. It led finally to a deep
and thickly wooded nullah, which
had taken the form of a horseshoe.
The panther entered the nullah at
the center of the bend and turned
aloner the left arm. Errowlinsr an?rilv
as it covered the ground in heavy i
strides. v e kept about twenty yards
from the nullah and skirted it along
the right until the top of the bend
was reached. Here a halt was made,
while I approached the nullah, the
panther growling away at the other
end, about 200 yards distant.
Then rll was The animal'
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it sprang out right from under my
feet, having doubled back along the
water course, without making the
slightest noise. Caught by surprise
I fired rapidly and stepped back to
avoid the animal's spring and in
60 doing fell into the nullah. ' The
next moment the panther was on
me and had fixed its teeth in my
arm.
Suddenly my little fox terrier
'Toby flew at the panther and fixed
itself on its back, tearing hard at
its neck. This diversion caused the
panther to leave me to attack the
dog, and I was able to stagger up
and out of the nullah and run to
where the native trackers were cow
f'r'ng. There I fainted and was car
ried back to the bungalow bleeding
from fourteen wounds. Missionary
IMce of Central Chilis is Cuic
Tribune.
Naming Hie Quiverful
A farmer in an English town has
eight daughters, who are namod to
represent his feelings at the timo
of their birth. The eldest is called
"Joy," and the second bears tho
name of "Summer," aa she was born
in July. The third arrived at a
time of financial difficulty and
would have been culled "Sorrow,"
but ber mother refused to have the
namo. So Sarah was substituted.
Things were brighter when number
four came, and "Hop" was her por
tion, while five and iii twin
were respectively "Spring" and
"April," this hwt being their birth
month. The wtventh was styled
"Harvest" and the youngest "Com
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friend will row, and I will pray.'
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"you row. Let the little un pray."
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