Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

We are informed by Mr. George F. Hunt, the other day, that about two weeks since, one of his Negro men, while at work on what is known as his “Orchard Place,” was attacked by a large panther. The boy fortunately saw him in time to send off a number of women and children who were working close by. It was while attempting to make his own retreat the attack was made by a spring, the animal lighting on the boy’s shoulder’s seizing at the same time the upper part of his head with his mouth. One of the animal’s tusks fortunately struck the bone just above the eye, causing him to lose the hold he thus had of the boy’s head. The boy fought manfully. In the beginning of action he had a hatchet, in wrestling with his opponent he dropped this. The panther seized him finally, by the calf of the leg, and pulling him up on the ground he brought him to the hatchet again; the boy immediately seized it and soon ended the conflict by splitting the head of his adversary. The panther measured over six feet in length, and was quite fat.-Jell., La., Gaz.