Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19
SALLY And Her CLUB.

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getting him back from the bear in
exchange for loaf of corn bread, and
who remembered q lot of things
about other relations of his, as told
IN The Sun the other day, had re-
membered something's his mother did
once, he would have had another en-
tertaining story to tel" said form
er Cortland county resident. "Bus
even Darius amazing memory wasn't
capable of that, for when his mother
had this adventure she wasn't Darius
mother yet and indeed wasn't his
mother until two years latter. She
was then plain Sally RICHTER.
"She was going through the woods
one day on an errand to a neighbor's,
a couple of miles from her fathers
clearing, when she heard a panther
yell, and looking back saw the animal
bounding along the path toward her.
Sally was only Is, but she knew
enough about panthers to be afraid
of them. In turning round to look
behind her she had stopped, and she
noticed that the panther stopped toe.
When she started on again, the pan
ther followed. The faster she went
the faster the panther went, yelling
frequently. Then Sally stopped again
aud turned square around in the path.
The panther stopped instantly, crouch.
ing and swaying its long tail. Sally
hurried on again, and the panther
hurried after her. When Sally stop
ped and turned again, she saw that
the panther was great deal nearer
to her than 1t had been when it stop
ped before.
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 its spring. She resolved 10
make an effort to save herself. Before
stopping again she saw a heavy club
at her side of the path. She quickly
picked it up and after 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 his spring,
but before it could leap Sally rushed
upon it with a yell that snamed those
the panther uttered and gave the
savage beast blow on the nose that
made everything crack. The panther
lowered it's head and began to sneeze
and shuttle. Sally brought the club
down again, this time on the panther's
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 SIZE
saw the panther get ready to leap
from the tree. She turned and faced
it again just as the furious animal
sprang. Sally jumped aside. The
panther alighted on the ground at
her feet, and quick as flash and with
the force of a trip hammer the big
club descended on its neck. The
panther settled down fat on the
ground under the blow, and two
more strocks of the club ended it
career.
"Sally was pretty we'll frustrated by
this lively bout with the panther and
was wiplng her face with her apron
and taking breathing spell when she
heard a great whining IN the direc-
tion Of the dead hemlock. Looking
in that direction, she saw too good
sized panther kittens tumbling out of
a hollow in the tree trunk. Sally
had her upunk 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 50 unpleasant for her, and
she made up her mind to have little
more satisfaction by knocking them
on the head too. She was walking
over to the tree to finish her work
when yell that almost made her
hair rise broke on her ears, and look
ing down the path she was alarmed
to see another panther, bigger than
the one she had killed, coming fierce
ly toward her. This she set down as
the dead ones mate: She was pleas
ed to notice that his advance was
somewhat hampered by the fact that
one Of his fore legs was off at the
knee.
"He was plainly bound for a fight
however, in spite of that handicap,
and came right on, yelling at every
humpy bound he made. Sally con-
cluded to try the same tactics on this
panther she had on the other, and
she set up the most uneartly yelling
and rushed to meet the ugly beast
This SURPRISED him. He stopped, but
kept on glaring. The next he knew
he got whack over the nose that
dropped him fiat in the path. Sally
didn't give him time to recuperate,
and less than FIVE seconds had his
brains scattered to the four winds.
The two young panthers had by this
time come out into the path and were
huddled at their dead mothers side,
licking her and crying most piteously.
This touched Sally's heart and she
determined to spare the lives of the
kittens and take them home. She
stopped down to stroke one of them,
when 1t turned on her, and quick as
Lightning sunk the the sharp claws of
one paw deep into her hands. Sally
then knocked both of the youngsters
in the head and held the unnrecad-