The Boy And The Panther

The Colusa (Cal.) Sun tells the following story : "Last Satixrday Master John Williams, aged 13, was out hunting j uoar hoine, on Elk creek, when lie ran I acroBS a panther and gave him the i fit of the contenta of his rifle. The panther made off, and the young man loaded up again and gave him olíase, getting in anothcr shot on him. This time, however, the panther got out of his sight, but he could seo froin the t blood that he had been bit. He went ; home and dreamed all night, of course, , of fightiug panthers with a grizzly or two thrown in to niake it interesting. Next morning, bright and early, he gatÜered hia gun, determined on finding tliat panther. He got on the blood, whioh he traoed into a hollow log. He fired into the log, and then got an ax and out the jianther out, finding him I still alive, but he flnished him up and j dragged his trophy in triumph home. j An inspection showed that both balls of the previous evening had gone through j the panther's lungs. He was an I mense fellow, measuring seven feet from tip to tip."