Terrible Fight With A Panther

A hunter named Jacob lí arquarson. while passing through the forest betweer Wliite Fish lake and Black Trout lake, near the head waters of the Madawaska river, encouutered a puma, or American panther. He eame across the carcasa oi a deer, which he stopped to examino, and found it to be the remains of a large upland cariboo. While lookiug at it, he heard a noise at some dietance off, among the tree-tops. Shortly after the sounds were repeated, and, on looking up, he saw a large animal leaping from tree to tree toward the spot where he stood. He was armed with a Ballard rifle, and, as Boon as the beastcame near enough, he fired at it, when, to his surprise and alarm, the bruto sprung from the tree directly at him. In the meantime the hunter had rapidly reloaded, and, having jumped asido and behind a large pine before the infunated animal could recover for a second spring, ho gave it another bullet. Both shots had taken effect, as was alterward discovered, but neither in a vital part. After the second shot the puma turned nnd darted with a roar at the hunter, who drew a long, keen-edged hunting-knife, and, with his back against a tree, awaited his enemy. The enraged animal sprung at him and fastened its long curved claws into his shoulder, when he drove the knife repeatedly to the bilt into its breast. Both came to the ground together, but the strugglo did not last long, for the huge animal, weakened by the loss of blood from the bullet and knife of Farquarson, soon turned over dead. The animal, which is quite rare in Canada now, was ono of the largest size, measuriDg nine feet from the nose