ADDENDA. 



AMMON WILT, the Lock Haven blacksmith, 

 states that in the fall of 1876 two boys, Joe and 

 Oliver Lenhart, aged 10 and 12 years, respec- 

 tively, residing near Westover, Clearfield County, 

 while shooting at mark with an old shot gun saw a 

 panther stealthily entering the lot. With a well- 

 directed shot they killed the monster, which measured 

 eleven feet from tip to tip. It is related that Daniel 

 Karstetter, when residing near Coburn in the old 

 days, heard a snarling under the bake-oven, and on in- 

 vestigation found' a huge panther engaged in devour- 

 ing a domestic cat. The long rifle was quickly put 

 into position and the great brute was killed instantly 

 from a bullet planted squarely between his eyes. 



Jesse Logan, Indian hunter, stated that the favorite 

 method of the redmen of hunting the panther was to 

 follow its tracks in the snow, the hunters traveling on 

 snow shoes, and being armed with long oak shafts 

 much like those used in playing the game of Snow 

 Snake. These were sharpened to the fineness of knife- 

 blades at the tips. When the animal was overtaken it 

 was speared to death by the Nimrods. This exciting 

 sport was carried on by the Pennsylvania Indians 

 until early in the Nineteenth Century. 



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