THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



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(lently thought him dead, and buried him in leaves to 

 be eaten on some future occasion. Michael Fetzer, 

 born 183-1:, an old hunter residing near Yarnell, Cen- 

 tre County, recounts that when he was a boy a panther 

 once came to the kitchen window of the Reese home- 

 stead and looked in at the family assembled around 

 tlie supper table. He was soon chased away by the 

 dogs and disappeared in tlie forest at the foot of In- 

 dian Grave Hill. Franklin Shreckengast describes 

 panthers concealed in the forest grinding their teeth 

 and snarling while Tom Askey and he cleaned a deer 

 at a big spring near Snow Shoe. He said tliat it was 

 a disconcerting sound, to say the least. This oc- 

 cured during the Civil War early one evening. The 

 last panther in the Snow Shoe region of Centre coun- 

 ty — the great abode of these beasts in early clays — was 

 killed on Rock Run in 188(), by Charles Stewart, of 

 Kylertown, Clearfield county, who collected a bounty 

 on its scalp at Bellefonte. 



