Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — A COURAGEOUS GIRL. [ARTICLE]

A COURAGEOUS GIRL.

Exciting Adventure of Jennie Perry with a Wildcat. Jennie Perry, a 16-year-old girl, the daughter of Charlie Perry, living a couple of miles northwest of North Yakima, had a terrible experience one day recently. The young woman had a couple of pet ducks, and, hearing a* commotion, she went into the yard and found one of the ducks in the claws of a veritable wildcat. With the one determination in her mind that the intruder must be killed, she seized a stick of stovewood and let drive at the “vannint,”. who, letting go of the duck, fell over as if dead. Miss Perry, seeing her little brother open the door, ran to him, and, shoving him inside, grabbed that woman’s true weapon, a broom, and cautiously approached where the animal lay to see if she really had dispatched him. All at once the beast sprang at her throat, when she delivered a stunning blow between its eyes and then< jumped with both feet with an energy born of desperation on the prostrate wildcat until life was extinct. Then, as she returned to the house, and womanlike consulted her mirror, she exclaimed: “Why, I’m as white as a sheet!” “Well, ! declare!” said her mother, “Jennie, you’ve made yourself famous. You’ve killed a wildcat!” And so it was that the beast, driven by hunger from adjacent foothills, was despoiled of its feast and its life at the same ,time by a Yakima girl’s undaunted heroism.—North Yakima (Wash.) Herald.