The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-07-11
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SALLY AND HER CLUB
HOW DARIUS ScOFiELD,s MOTHER
KILLED FOUR PANTHERs.
ene Wasn't His Mother Then, and So re
Didn't Remember !t-But q Former
Cortland County Resident Gives an In
terestins iccoant OF the Incident.

SoseANhs Gansy Resident Gives an In
terestins account OF the Incident.
IF the late Darius scofie1a Of Co-t-
lane eoanty, who remembered his grand
mother d2ekering with a bear for him
when &c WIS IA year cid and getting him
back tscn tie hear in exchange Tor a
ioat CT Germ bread, and who remembered
a Let CT thlcss about other relations Of
his. O. toid III The San tie ether dav.
hac remembered something his mother
did ofcf, }o would have had another
ente''&5ning story to tell, said a former
Cortland coanty resident. t'But even
Darius aiaa=i1g memory wasn't capable
of tEa., fer when his mother had this
adventure she wasn't Harius' mother
yet and indeed wasn't his mother until
two years later. She was then plain
Sally Brighter.
Sic Was going through the woods
u day Oh Ii errand to a neighbours, a
couple OF miles from her fathers clear
ing, when size heard a panther yell, and
looE1aE beck saw the animal bounding
along the rat.l toward her. Sally was
only IL. but she knew enough about
panthers to be afraid of them. In turn
ing round 10 leok behind her she had
stopped. ard she noticed that the pan
ther stopped too. When she started en-
again, tio PANTHER followed. The faster
she went til faster the panther went,
yelling frequently. Then Sally stopped
again and termed square around in the
path. The panther stopped instantly,
c%rouehinR and swaying its long tail.
Sally hurried on again, and the panther
hurried after her. When Sally stopped
and 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
b was going. She saw that at one
mort turn the panther's tactics would
have brought the willy beast so close to
her that it would undoubtedly make its
spring. She resolved to make an effort
to save herself. Before stopping again
she saw a heavy club at the side of tho
path. She quickly picked it up and aft
er q step or w more stopped and turned
suddenly, facing the panther, which
was low not more than ten feet behind
her. The panther was ready for its
spring, but before it could leap Sally
rushed upon it with a yell that shanled
those the panther had uttered and gave
the savage beast a blow on the nose
that made everything crack. The pan
ther lowered its head and began to
sneeze and shuttle. Sally brought the
club down again, this time on the pan |
Tiers head, and the great cat sprany
one side and ran up a 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
ground at her feet, and quick as a fash
and with the force of a trip hammer tie
big club descended on it's neck. The
panther settled down fiat OH the ground
under the blow, and two more strokes of
the club ended its career.
"Sally was pretty we'll frustrated by
this lively bout with the panther and
was wiping her face with her apron and
taking a breathing spell when she heard
a great whining III the direction of the
dead hemlock. Looking in that direc- |
ton, she saw too good sized panther
kittens tumbling out of a hollow III 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
a little more satisfaction by knocking
them on the head too. She was walking
over to the Tree to finish her work when
a yell b a almost made her hair rise
broke on her ears, and looking down
the path she was alarmed to see another
panther, biz ger than the u she had
killed. coming fercely toward her. This
she set down as the dead ones mate.
b was pleased to notice that his ad-
vance was somewhat hampered by the
fact that one of his fore legs was off at
the knee.
He was plainly bound for q fight,
however, IN spite of That handicap, and
came right on. yelling at every hun.py
bound he made. Sally concluded to trv
the same tactics IN this panther she had
on the other one, and she set up tic
0 unearthly yelling and rushed to
meet the ugly beast. This surprised
him.. He stopped, but kept on glaring.
The next thing he knew he got a whack
over the nose that dropped hi,a Hat i'll
the path. Sally didn't give him time to
and in loco 4L,, e.