Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-13
SUSAN AND THE PANlHERS.
An Episode In the Youth Of an
Astounding Woman.
She Was Interrupted BY Two PAnthers--
When Compelled to Take Hand
In the EcrlmmAgc She Didn't
Waste Her Powder

Waste Her Powder.
Long afore know'd Susan or had
ever heard Of her yit,' said Cuthbert
Miles, the octogenarian basket-weav.
Ing hermit Of Indian Run, Pa,
'which'd make It sumpin' like seventy
year ago, she had started in to be as
toundin alreedy, an she was only jest
comm ten year old at that never
knowd about II, either, till q year or
more arter me an Susan was married,
on had come down from York state
into the Pennsylvany wildernest an
chopped an dug an grubbed out that
clearin Of our'n down the creek. |
wouldn't q knowd 1t then, nuther, II
me an Susan hadn't got up one night
to 90 out and resky some Of our live
stock belongins from painter that
had come down out o the mountains
an set out to levy on u calf. We
reskied the calf an got the painters
hide an taller, an after we'd gone
back an went TO bed, Susan said that
tho painter didn't begin to be as big ~
either one o the two she killed wdnst
at one shot, up in Cortland county,
when she was gal.
III I'd y lsnow'd thla one wasn't no
bigger'n II wAs,' says she, I wouldn't
a woke you up, Moses, says she, but
d q slipped out an gethered II In
alone, says Ahe,
"'Susanl' says !, how you talkI
'rlhea she didn't say no more, but I
couldn't git them two painters at one
shot out o my mind, an pooty soon l
says.
"'Susan, says l, how did 1t happsn9
"'That | woke you up?' says she.
"'No, saysI. The two at one shot,
"0h! says she, Didn't I tell 70
bout itg'
"'Why, MOI says. Course notI'
"'Must ben, then, cause hadn't
thort OF II, says Susan. It's ben 20
long ago thatI most fergit 1t, anyhow,
says she, but his is spmpin like the
way 1t came around, says she
nThen she told me bout it, Seems
that Susan's mother had sister livin'
down at the Chenango Forks, an one
day some one from down there came to
Susan's folks clearin' a-horseback to
tell the OIL lady that her sister was
sick an mebby wouldn't live till the
next mornin Course, Susan's mother
mus go down right away, but Susan's
pap was way from home, an wasn't
'spected back till late that night, or
mebbe not afore mex mornin' 1t
wouldn't do to 60 way an leave no.
body on the clear rim, fer when the Of
man came home an found his wife an
darter gone he wouldn I know what to
make Of 1t, an there wasn't no neigh
bors TO leave word with.
"Why, nanny, says Susan, I'll
stay till pap comes an tell him.
AN Snsan wasn't ten yit, an there
wasn't no one Twin nigher'n five miles,
an there was big woods on every side,
full O bar an painters
"'Aint ye 'feerd, SUSAN says her
NANNY,
"puh!' says Susan. 'Feerd' Iguess
| wasn't fetched up in the woods TO be
skeert by owls says she.
AN SO Susans nanny went down
to the Forks to see her dyln sister.
Susan done the chores round the clear
in jist as II the hull family was there
as usual an artcr eatin' her supper she
put n big log on the fireplace, cause It
was long late in the fall, an sot down
TO put some patches on her psps hick.
orr trousers, which had been tore con
sid'ahls during q little 'u,slc the Of
man',I hen hagin' with a b'ar the day
pfnre. Nusan pop was liable TO sech
III sells, IN Susan usety say that bout
the only reccryation She had when she
want worIln was took up settln'
patches in her Faps trousers or SEWN