The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-18
Hunting on the Nucces.

From Campaign Sketches of the Var scih Merico,
now in the press OF the Harpers, the Literary World
makes interesting extracts quote the follow
ing:
A party Of five officers left the camp for three days
hunt on The Nueces The second day had all return
ed for some grub, except d., when him coming
on horseback with (as supposedly deer behind him
To our joy instead OF deer, he threw down an enor
swell done d. p was the involuntary exclamation
"Where did YOU kill him !under what circumstances !"
easy, my boys-just hold your horses; III tell you
but Just tip me some grog for am rather used up
Well, shot busting big buck, and saw il fall about 9
hundred yards from me- in mot. knowing when Old
King Death name q I'm nus e sends s ball na II IS al
about the buck, and crawling upon another, when
heard the greatest fuss and growing where the buck
fell, and concluded the wolves must have got it. ran
up and got within six feet before the cause of all
this confusion when, simultaneously with my sight
with sharp cat-growl and desperate leap, panther
sprang at me- had barely time to fall back few feet
when he brushed past me in full leap. just missing my
person, lighting the ground about twenty feet from
me- He instantly turned towards me, and prepared,
with teeth shown tail his back, and death in his eye,
to make another spring at me-; drew up King Death
saving 1T is you or L. old fellow, cracked away, and
shot him through the centre of the forehead little lower
than the eyes He fell, and, with some desperate strug
gles died, relieving from rather unpleasant pre-
dicament' Good old fellow bring out that bottle of
Cozzens old brandy none but the best to drink to the
panther killer"
II certainly was dangerous, most fearfuy dangerous
situation DIS GOODNESS, daring and ready command OF
nerve saved his life. The animal weighed one hundred
and sixty pounds feet eight inches from tip
tip and four feet high The spotted tigers terrible
animals and the ferces hunting dogs at their APP
proach Colonel c., of Texas told me that the Ber-
nard river, while hunting co0ns with friend, the dogs
treed in an immense live oak something which they
made an unusual commotion Being the youngest, il
his fate 10 climb the tree, and get they thought, the
coon down. The tree directly on the river bank,
and its horizontal branches reached nearly The
trees are sappngs in that section Of the country the
especially for they DO say that under the shade
e. lu.l linn fhaxrc
have had these trees the sylvan times of merry England
what dances the good people could have had under them!
But TO return He climbed the tree, and crawling
one of these horizontal limbs expecting every moment
see the coon what should present ITSELF upon rising up
to look around but immense spotted tiger, with eyes
like halls of fire" What 10 do was the question. He
could not back out he dared drop into the river for
il was full of alligators He fell upon this PLAN swung
himself below the limb and hung on by his hands The
tiger walked over him, descended the tree, and went
through crowd of nine dogs, fierce there were
in Texas, who never even growled at him.