Milford chronicle., 1896-02-28
SALLY S, AND HER CLUB
HOW DARIUS scoFiELp's MOTHER
KILLED FOUR PAINTERS.

,,-.,.,A County Resident Gives an -
.-...,r. Account OF the Incident
~, tbs late Darius scoheld Of cort-
hand county. who remembered his Crane
Ian, a.,' Iii diokeriae with a bear for him
he. ..',,a,, hs was year old and getting him
hack from the bear in exchange ~
Loaf Of corn bread. and who remempereu
: =. ~ things about other relations o.
AZ az told in The Sun the other Day
Ma remembered something his mother
Aid once he would have had another
sntartaininq story to tell, said a former
Cortland county resident. But even
Dams, amazing memory wasn't capable
~ tbat~for when. his mother had TINS
advanture she WASH I, parius mother
vet and indeed wasn't his mother until
two years later. She was then pam
ssshe was going through the woods
,na dav ON an errand to a neighbor's' a
conn1a Of miles from her fathers clear
inc when she heard q panther yell, ana
lookino back saw the animal bounding
alone the path toward her. Sally was
only IL. but she knew enough aDont
nanthers to be afraid Of them. In turn
inc round to look behind her she had
Stoned. and she noticed that the pan
4her stopped too. When she started on
again. the panther followed The faster
she went the faster the panther Went,
yelling frequently. Then Sally stopped
again and turned square around il the
path. The panther stopped instantly
crouching and swaying its long tail
SALLY hurried on again, and the panther
hurried after her. When Sally stopped
ard turned again, she saw that the
panther was a great deal nearer TO her
than it had been when it stopped be-
fore.
"sally wasn't half way to the place
she was going. She saw that at one
more turn the panther's tactics would
have brought the willy beast so close to
her that it would undoubtedly make It's
spring. She resolved to make an eIiort
to save herself Before stopping again
she saw a heavy club at the side OF the
path. She quickly picked it up and aft
a. a step or two more stopped and turned
suddenly, facing the panther, which
was now not more than ten feet behind
her. The panther was ready for It's
Hprine. but before it could leap Sally
rushed upon it with a yell that shamed
those the panther had uttered and gave
the savage beast a blow on the nose
shat made everything crack The pan
thar lowered its head and began to
sneeze and snuffie Sally brought the
club down again, this time on the pan
theirs head, and the great cat sprang
one side and ran up dead hemlocK
tree. Thinking that she had scared her
hungry foe from the chase, Sally started
to run on her way, when she saw the
panther get ready to leap from the tree
She turned and faced it again just as
the furious animal sprang. Sally jump
ed aside. The panther alighted on the
around at her feet, and quick as flash
and with the force Of trip hammer the
mig club descended on its neck. The
panther settled down fiat on the ground
under the blow, and two more strokes OF
the club ended its career.
s'Sally was pretty we'll frustrated by
this lively bout with the panther and
was wiping her face with her apron and
taking breathing spell when she heard
a great whining in the direction of the
dead hemlock Looking in that direc-
tion, she saw too good sized panther
kittens tumbling out Of hollow in the
tree trunk. Sally had her spunk up
now. She believed, and no doubt she
was right, that the two baby panthers
belonged to the panther that had been
making her journey so unpleasant for
her, and she made up her mind to have
q little more satisfaction by knocking
them on the head too She was walking
over to the tree to finish her work when
a veil that almost made her hair rise
broke on her ears, and looking down
the path she was alarmed to see another
panther, bigger than the one she had
killed, coming fiercely toward her. This
she set down as the dead ones mate.
She was pleased TO notice that his ad-
vance was somewhat hampered by the
fact that one of his fore legs was of al
the knee
''He was plainly bound for fight,
however, in spite of that handicap, and
came right on, yelling at every humpy
bound he made. Sally concluded to try
the same tactics ON this panther she had
ON the other one, and she set up the
most unearthly yelling and rushed tC
meet the ugly beast. This surprised
him. He stopped, but kept on glaring.
The next thing he knew he got a whacl
over the nose that dropped him fiat IL
the path Sally didn't give him time tC
recuperate, and In less than five seconds
had his brains scattered to the foul
l. 49,, flnrc hnH hV
this time come ont into the path anc
were huddled at their dead mother
side, licking her and crying most pite
ously. This touched Sally's heart, an6
she determined to spare the lives Of the
kittens and take them home. She stoop
ed down to stroke one of them, when il
turned on her, and quick rs Lightning
sunk the sharp claws of one paw deeI
into her hand. Sally then knocked botl
of the youngsters in the head and hello
the unprecedented record of killing foul
panthers in less than ten minutes. Sally
went on and did her errand and tolt
what luck she had run against ON th'
way over. Young Jim Scoheld, son o.
the neighbor where Sally had the er
rand. went back with her, and they
iuqged the panthers in to Sally's ia
theirs. Young Jim must have thought
she would make just the kind Of wife Z
hustling baclxwoods farmer ought t.
have, for he took to calling at old maj
Fighters pretty regular, and in les
than a year he and Sally were married
Darius was born a year or SO afterward.
New York Sun.
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