The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-05-04

!, worth having, not to mention tbs Joke
on him. I'm going to jump up in about
another minute when the beast makes
another crawl, and I'm going to chuck
the moose around his neck. The min.
ute / do we must both tail on and
pull like mad, running as fast as the
beast'll let u.s.
| "Pm afraid that the beast won't lei
us run more than about an inch, Jim, "
! said /. before he'll be on us and get
one Of us sure. l don't think that you
can moose leopards the way you can
coyotes"
What I'm figuring on" said jim, 'is
that the brute will do what would seem
to be natural thing. When we start
to pull him toward ", he'll pull back
instead of leaping at US. Now he's
coming on. In moment I'll-
| Whe-e-e-e.'
Jim jumped up and cast his moose
with fierce whoop and l scrambled tC
my feet instantly and caught hold OF
the line with him. The leopard wa.
holding back with his huge claws
| spread to tEeir full dimensions and
every one of the talons digging deep
into the soft earth while he tried to
dlslw his evil head back and free him.
self from the moose that was strang.
ling him.
| "Otf we go and yell like sin for help
! painted Jim, as we started to drag the
| snarling brute from his foothold. Once
! we had succeeded in doing this. we
scrambled along, fioundering and stun.
bling but never relieving the steady
strain on the line.
don't SUPPOSE that we were hauling
more than a quarter of an hour before
our shouts brought our men to help
But it seemed to me to be month
All the time l expected to feel the i'm.
Nact of the great furry body, because
felt almost certain that the leopard
would get sense enough, sooner OF
later. to stop pulling back on the lassc
and to leap on us. jim afterward told
me that he could feel his shoulder
being laiu open by the terrible claws
and the warm blood running Gown his
back during all that wild scramble
through the jungle.
But luck was with Us. The black
leopard never once ceased to pull back.
ward against u.s. and when the men ar.
rived he was so wild with rage and sc
nearly worn out from the choking
strain hct he could not put up any
sort of N effective fight, but mere,y
hit out b,indly- and snapped his jaws
without any result.
Two Of the men had brought great
net of grass rope along In jiffy
it was thrown over our enemy and he
was rolled up in it before he knew
what had happened.
| Then a dozen natives danced around
here and there, passing ropes all over
the net and cleverly avoiding the claws
that were stuck through the meshes,
until they had the beast absolutely
| woven in a great mass of twine. A
huge, long bamboo was passed through
the meshes, and the leopard was car
ried into camp. where he was soon
safely encased in strong bamboo
cage.
He turned out to be beast of quite
exceptional size and in magnificent
coat. We got him to the coast safely,
and la.-ded MIN all right in the end
in the Zoo that wanted him.
nave always thought it --:ty that
the thousands who adm him now
canno. know the strange way he was
caught. But though our way of hunt
ing big cats had turned out to be such
a success, neither Jim Charters nor
shall never forget that quarter OF an
hour in the jungle with the brute in
tow.-New York News.