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Beta a Steel-trap for Wolves — Catches a Panther in it — Panther fights the Dogs — 

 Finds other Tracks in the Snow — Pursues and kills two more — Finds another 

 Panther's Track — Pursues it many miles, when be trees him — Shoots, and wounds 

 him — Most desperate Fight between Uunter, Dog, and Panther— Dog loses an Eye 

 — Another Panther-chase — Follows him from thirty-five to forty miles before 

 killing him — Returning Ilome, finds a Panther's Track — Follows it into the 

 Laurels — Cunning of the Panther to elude pursuit — Treed by the Dog — Sheets, 

 and wounds him — Uard Fight between the Dog and Panther — Is Killed by an- 

 other shot — Hunts again on the Potomac, with Hugh McMullen — Kills thr«e 

 Deer, and camps in the Snow — Feet frozen — Returns to " Milk and Honey," and 

 hunts eight days— Kills thirteen Deer and a Catamount — Exciting Bear-fight, and 

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finds an old Bear and Cubs in the Trap — Shoots her and one Cub— Takes two Cuba 

 home— Their Docility — Raises one, the other escapes — Mary sends the Author to 

 Hunt — Kills five Deer in an afternoon — Parts with his Rifle — No success with his 

 new Gun — Hunts a week, and only kills two Deer — Reflections on outside Ap- 

 pearances — Gets the Rifle in order — Two Bucks fighting— Kills one— Hunts with 

 his son William — Kills three Deer — Dog-fight — Goes to the Glades with two boys 

 to feed the Stock — Very Cold, and Snow on the ground — In two days, kills eight 

 deer — Next day, kills two Deer, and has a shot at a Wolf—Did not get him — En- 

 low's Hunt — Kills a wounded Bear with his Knife — Kills several Deer — They 

 hunt at Cherry-Tree Meadow — Kills a Bear with the Knife, after two shots and 

 hard fighting — Catches a Wolf in a Trap — Kills an old Bear and two Cubs — 

 Makes a Deer-Park — Catches a number of Deer in the deep Snow, and puts them 

 in the Park — Mode of catching them — Has a desperate Fight with a large 

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In 1836, hunts with his two sons, William and John Lynn, on Meadow Mountain — 

 Kills a Buck, and finds two Bears in the Trap — Next week, Hunts on the same 

 Ground — Kills a number of Deer — Races with William in Hunting— KUIs twenty 

 Deer in one week — Visits Uncle Spurgin, in Preston County, Virginia, to kill 

 some large Bucks, which he could not — Kills two of them in a couple uf hours — 

 Hunts ~n Roman Nose — Encounters a large Bear — Wounds him — Dangerous 

 situatioti —Kills an old Buck, that had bafi9ed all the Hunters — Two Friends 

 come to Hunt — Kills an old Bear and two Cubs — Hunts on Negro Mountain — 

 Kills three fine Bucks within a few steps of each other — Pumpkins and Cream — 

 Hunts at Little Crossings — Kills six deer — Long Chase after the largest — Visits 

 the same Ground, and kills another Buck — Mrs. Cunninghaci and the Bee-tree 

 — Amusements of the young people — Cold weather — Goes to the Traps — Finds • 



