The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-02-15

On the evening Of ~ Nh INST, one o.
Barnwel1's handsonnest younG gentlenen,
m. lame Brown. condJud6d u take :
litfle solitary exefciee and pleasure hy
way Of one of hin t6Rur1te sportR fox
hunting. Mounting spirited young
chestnut hay fIlIt and collecting BY blast
Of his bukle his pack ~ twelve th0goueh-
bred hounds-two 81 which arrived from
ENGLAND but : lev dAys ago IN ~ out
on 1lis pleasure excursion about nine P. %.
About five miles from here his pack
astruck'' and .sopened" jQy0usly, and
after 8 trail of s9uaa thirty minutes
:. jumped the object Of their search. BY
this tune the dogs were perfectly Wild. and
"tonguod y as they never he'd before. In
q few moments the object Of their trail
was il sight. and about ONE hundred yards
ahead. and after q close and heated run
for near one mile down the public high
way the animal with one bound, and with
the greatest apparent ease. cleared. ten
rail fence and made" for an adjacent
swamp.
The dogs were hot in pursuit, and in
short while brought the monster at bay.
With the utmost difficulty our young hero
induced his steed to approach sufficiently
near for him to see the subject OF the race,
and much to his surprise he found It to De
something other than fox, with eyes
glarine like fire-balls, and his hounds
standing aloof, stricken with terror, some
two or three lying few feet of LAGER.
ated and torn from head total. Crouched
down by q large oak, it was impossible to
tell what the thing was that so terrified
and kept at hay his excellent dogs, and he
at once thought and exclaimed: I've
caught monkey, and what am TO 90
with its' BY this time our friends horse
was much excited, paving the ground and
chafing considerably, and to learn what
the unnatural monster was, Mr.. Brown
started to alight, when the horrible beast
made one spring and was on his horses
necki The poor frightened steed was
wild with terror, and in second was oil
at a break neck speed, dashing the object
of its fright against pine. For an
hour he was unmanageable and dashed
through the woods as il all the
fends of the lower regions were
at his heels. But finally he was
checked in his mad career by his perfect
rider, and with lash and spur made to re-
| trace his steps and again approach the
unknown. The dogs still held their posts,
but at decidedly respectable distance,
and, nothing daunted, our hero of the
chase again attempted to dismount, and
so far succeeded as to get one foot on the
ground. when, horror Of all horrors, the
beast was on his shoulders in q second,
and his horse had broken from his hold
and left him. Reader, imagine yourself
in his predicament, alone in the woods
with ferocious wild monster on your
| a. hat uyn,1 40 dnnQ
Just exactly as the writer would have
done-left, if possible, and mighty
scared" too. But not SO with our young
knight of the chase. In less time than
we took to write it he was graphing
manfully with the Infatuated beast, with
but one thought in his mind, to keep il
from off his throat. The struggle was
terrible, indeed, and had it not been that
his hounds hung to the hind parts OF the
animal his young life would have ended
in the most horrible manner. After 8
few moments more of heroic struggling
| in which his strength was well-nigh ex
hausted, the annexed lines occurred tt
him:
s'He either doubts his faith too much
Or his deserts small
Who will not put it to the touch
To win Or lose it ALL"
With a movement as quick as though
he disengaged his right hand, drew his re
volver and, just as the bloodthirsty beas
opened his ponderous jaws and was abou
to sink his tusks in our hero's throat
fired, the ball finding its way through thu
brain of the animal, and it dropped dead
at his feet--a panther of forty -eigh
pounds, and three feet seven inches long
So conquered our brave friend, receiving
in the contest for life but few injuries
from which he has entirely recovered
and is again in prime condition for an