The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-02
THE FIELD 0F ADVENTURE
rupI1IING INCIDENTS AND OAR
ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
Desperate Battle Win "loch'-
Catching Big Shark-A hiue on
q CoWcatcher.

Cowcatcher.
N BE DANIELS had b e
~ around the mountains for
NJ good many years, but not
long enough to fam.llarize
himself with the cunning stratagems
of an Adirondack Mountain wildcat.
When Abe came into town one day
last week he was sight to behold.
His clothes were in shrels, his face
badly scratched, and his gait as un-
steady as that of drunken man. he
Ind met a wildcat, and though abe
was the victor the fight was probably
the most savage that ever took place
between man and animal on the
mountains in this region
AZ started out about 3 o'clock IN the
afternoon, he said, when relating his
story to the Times correspondent the
next day, land l had no Idea l was
coin to run up against the stiffest
fight a man ever put up in this part OF
the mountains. took my gun and
dog, as always do. l wasn't out Ter
ANYTHING in particular, but les' to
shoot anything in th' way o gooa,
seasonable game. And now l wisht l
had left the dog homo. Pete was the
best dog ever had. The poor fellow
cone. He's been made mincemeat OF.
| I puess it must have been near D
O'clock when / calculated I'd turn
hack T. town. I had been trampln fer
two hours an didn's see hide nor hair
eff ANYTHING with shootin' at.
al was kind O. tired. and so took
n short cut down the mountain side.
And that's jes' where your Uncle Abe
got into trouble. Ii / had KEEP to the
old trail | wouldn't have had to hight
like n demon to save myself from
, heino clawed all to pieces. L hadn
been pushin' my way through ths
woods more'n five minutes When
happened to look up. There in tres
, ON a low limb sat one O. the bigges
wildcats / ever see. Before L coul'
4 raise nv gun to fire that cat droppe!
/ from the limb and lit on my shonl
. doris. I screamed and threw mysel
to the ground.
Q oOuicker than O wink the dog wa
J at the cat. He went CT the cat 1ror
6 behind. and, finding itself attacke
from the rear, the cat let go ITS mol
T on me and went for the dog.
IS inmped to my feet, dubbed my CUR
@ md made n smash at the cat. MISE
)! II by a hair. was afraid to SHOOT, IL
n 7 didn't want to take any chances
., hittin' the dog.
ID ST swung the gun again, anu IN
to time caught the cat on the Dack al
OF knocked it clean out of the dog
Ip clutches and into the undergrowt
le 1t was an ugly blow, but the cat "
IL go furious and worked up and excite
tbat IL came at me like something !
fernal. Scream? l never heerd SUI
as screamin' in all my life. Its ey
blazed like fire, its mouth was W,
ar omen. and when it wasn't sefeamin
ed Kissed like dozen snakes. LII "
to enough to make any mar trempie
Dol his boots. But was too busy try
his to save nv life to do much trembi
The then. Afore I knowed it the
ng bouuced through the air and iano
Ter nlum on nv breast. The shock '
I'm SO great that l went down. FOR
ne. uately fer me the cat didn't tear
ewes out. It scratched snd tore
nv clothes fer minnit. Only tw
-, did it scratch my face. Pete was a
aus in a minnit. and that was all t.
cen saved me. ,,
ecu "With a scream that I'll never
I,, ,;t the cat went at poor Pete. 1t
# a a game fight, and Il sat TO 'ne uea
80 Pete was in many fight, but ne he
~ tackled a wildcat before. he co
''' - bite and gouge, but be couldn't scre
end tear. Over and over the dog
,an cat rolled, fighting oil the time
eese sin Icouldn't shoot; tho two
n,,xed ND too much. So l ciun
.ana nv oun and sailed in. 1 was de
= a. mined I'll Kill that cat or die IN
= oo es ottemp'. caught the animal WI
80 on the shoulder that made 1t scre
INV with pain and let so its hold on I
MS. II was not until the cat sprang to
ohte eide that saw how badly Pete
d DIV burt His skin and flesh had !
" Ill torn into ribbons by that mouf
We, WEI devil. and he was smeared with D
- from head to foot. l wheeled az
'vho an made fer the cat. But the
WV was ouicker'n / was. 1t was ut \
an0s a second. Pete was no longer an
!. .hs now; he lay dying few feet ava
ct of thlnA-ano YOU s on5;t;on
9" nv life, for it made me fight all
~. harder. l had had Pete fer year
Taste S went everywhere with me. Whel
o; YOU saw Pete you were sure to
81 Abe Daniels, an jcs' the other
about. l clinched with the ca
,nn,S was the only thing I could az
couldn't fight as hard as before,
was too winded. | ies' hugs
tight. 1t tore my clothes and scra
nv legs in an awful way, but Il
threw last long, fer / ont with my knii
Inter. 80, d;semhoveled that cat.
New srrhe blood gushed out, ana
:. Mr.. then the cat made fearful enc
tried bite me in the face. threw my
If and es far back as / could aud rippe.
J plat slashed with all my might. i
not felt the cats struggles gettin v
It last and weaker. 1t gave few cow
'resld- kicks. and died still hanging to
these III - +aar II ,cosc from me.
again ward measured the cat. IL '
5entle- feet long from lip tip 1t VI
astlo first fight with y wildcns. nol
ounce TIL never have another. 10 te
,be truth said Abe pathel
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