Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — Shooting a Bear and Kicking a Panther. [ARTICLE]

Shooting a Bear and Kicking a Panther.

er[Whitehall/rimes.] “Talk about your narrer ’scapes," said Czardme, “I must tell you ’oout the one I had. Ten years ago last winter I went out into the woods where bear aud panthers was thicker than gum chewex's in a female academy. I soon got my eyes onto a big noblelook in bear. My gun had been loaded wnh a bigger charge of novvder than usual. I just pulled ahead onto that bear and crack w ent the rifle aud over went the bear, while my gun just give one powerful kick which laid me o u flat on the‘ground. But the best of the thing was this: I didn’t see a big panther which was on a bluff behind me, and as 1 shot the cuss jumped for me, only to meet the butt of my gun which was going his way, and Uae ugly varmint fell dead with his skull crushed m by the guu stock.”