Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The Lakeville, [Ohio] Journal gives the following case of maternal courage as a recent occurrence. A number of Catamounts had been seen over the Michigan boundary and caused great terror among the farmers. One of them entered the window of Mr. Israel Hawkins, which had been left open, while his wife was engaged in adjoining room, and had crept up to a cradle, where a baby six months old was sleeping, Before he was discovered.-The mother, on perceiving him, seized a broad-axe which lay upon the hearth, and commenced an attack. He recovered, sprung upon the women, and throwing her down, tore her left thigh severely. She contrived to raise herself upon her knees with the animal clinging to her and struck a second blow. The edge of the axe penetrated the skull, and laid the monster upon the floor. Her husband came home shortly after, and found her lying prostrate and exhausted, with the Catamount stretched at her feet, and her two other children weeping over her. The woman is recovering rapidly.