Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — A Cowboy’s Fight with a Wildcat. [ARTICLE]

A Cowboy’s Fight with a Wildcat.

A cowboy accidentally referred to a recent experience when camping near a sheep herd. He was sleeping out of doors, with his boots on, and was awakened by a wildcat that had a sheep by the throat. He leaped up and started toward the cat, when it made a spring for his throat. He had nothing to fight with except his hands and feet, and couldn't rnn. By way of apology for relating the story, he said that he just had to fight—that that was all there wms about it. He knocked the wildcat off, and it leaped back. He jumped away, and as the animal fell ho gave it a kick. This knocked it over, and as quick as thought he jumped -upon its head. It got free, though stunned, and started for him once more. He knocked it again with effect, and getting it under his feet, stamped it to death. “1 was never so glad to see anything die in my lite,” he added, as he rolled a Mexican cigarette. — Correspondence Cincinnati, CommercialGazette.