The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09
A LEAP YEAR INCIDENT.
The Young Woman Shot Wild Cat
Under Difficulties.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
There was given on a recent evening at
Black Lake. this state, a leap year party,
at which Miss kittie Carr escorted Mr..
Frank ISupton, as we learn from a Cal
hcoon dispatch in a contemporary. The
neighborhOod of Black Lake is a wild
region infested by all sorts of cruel raw
enous and venomous beasts of prey. The
bones OF many an unfortunate traveller,
pollshed TO an unnatural whiteness by
the fangS of these scOurges of the forest
lie IN windows along the lonely high
ways. SO it is not Strange that while
returning from the party Miss Carr heard
the piercing cry Of a wildcat. Oddly
enough, she was unarmed. But, assuT-
ing the young man at her side that there
was no danger, she drove rapidly home
Arriving at the house, she got her
fathers rifle and announced to young
Lupton her intention of going back after
the cat. "B-b-but," he returned, II am
no h-hunter. Why should we m-m-fno-
lest est the anlmalY He has as much right to
I'VE as any OF US. Il shall go back and
shoot that wildcat" answered Miss Carr.
G--g-good," replied" Mr.. Lupton. $
s-shoot the b-beggar-that's what he
n-needs. S-shoot him till he can't W
w-wiggle-Ill stay here and hold the h
horse" "Of course you will hold the
lady,, and she stepped into the carriage
and drove away into the forest, the awful
and ominous silence broken only by the
chattering of the teeth of the man by her
side. Reaching the spot Miss Carr first
slipped corner of the robe into the
mouth of young Mr.. Lupton, thus, in a
measure, deadening the clatter and then
dropped out of the vehicle All
was silence, save for the wind making
moan in the tops of the overhanging trees
and the distant last cry of some belated
traveller gone down before the spring of
a denizen of the unknown glades. The
fierce vibrations of the mans teeth, esti-
mated at $500 per minute, were fast
wearing out the corner of the robe when
suddenly his cheek was famed by the
shock of the wildcats cry, now close at
hand His jaw was paralyZed and forgot
to move, the wind ceased to complain the
last gurgle of the distant traveller died
away, and the silence could be felt. Then,
again, nature shook with the wildcats
shrek, his CLASSY, baleful eyes were seen
between two rocks, there was the sharD
report of a rifle and the beast and the man
fell forward, the one dead-the other
in faint. The horse dashed wildly down
the road with the limp young Mr.. Lupton
hanging over the dashboard. But at the
end of a mile he recovered consciousness
stopped the animal and drove bravely
back. When about halfway he met Miss
Carr dragging the wildcat behind her
by the tail. She threw it into the car
rage and again they drove home The
young man is still under the care of local
physicians, suffering from shock, bat Miss
Carr has felt no inconvenience from the
experience THE wildcat" says the dis
patch, in closing, was the largest ever
secured in Sullivan county, and Miss Carr
will have the skin mounted and keep
it as a memento."
This is practically the first leap year
occurrence involving the New Woman:
we shall look for others with great inter-
est,