34 THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



branch of a mammoth white oak. He fired at it. the 

 bullet passing through its left shoulder. The wound 

 served to infuriate the monster, and it leaped from the 

 tree, landing in the centre of the snarling, snapping 

 pack of dogs. Backing up against the butt of a fallen 

 hemlock, with its right paw, which was not disabled, it 

 killed five of the fices before the hunter sent a bullet 

 into its brain. The fice which escaped was a tiny ter- 

 rier, which was alert enough to keep out of reach of 

 the brute's paw. The huge carcass was transported in 

 an ox-cart to Young Woman's Town, now North 

 Bend, where after it hung for a day in front of a tav- 

 ern, it was skinned and the hide sold to Matthew 

 Hanna, Jr., a hotel keeper of Young Woman's Town. 

 The carcass was cut up into roasts and steaks, and 

 the entire settlement feasted on it for several days. 

 One dark night, ten years later, Jacob K. Huff, better 

 known as ''Faraway Moses,"' was followed down 

 Young Woman's Creek by a panther. The brute kept 

 along the side of the ridge, howling every few min- 

 utes, until it neared the settlement. Evidently the 

 panther had young, and feared that the traveler might 

 molest them. James E. DeKay, in his Natural His- 

 tory of New York State, described a panther killed 

 by Joe Wood at Fourth Lake of Fulton Chain, in 

 Herkimer county. New York, which measured eleven 

 feet three inches. The stuffed hide was exhibited for 

 many years at the Utica ]\Iuseum. The contents of 

 this Museum w^ere removed, it is stated, to Jackson- 

 ville, Florida, about 1870. "Adirondack" }*Iurrav. 



