THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



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Canoe Creek, and was assured by her that it was a 

 panther. The cry was repeated several times." 

 Panthers were fond of standing erect when sharpen- 

 ing their claws against the rough bark of the tupelo 

 trees. Franklin Shreckengast relates how two hunters 

 on Baker's Run, in Centre county, in an early day 

 carved away a section of bark from one of these trees 

 and cut on the smooth surface "Dec. 4, 18.58, Jake 

 Hall, Abe Glelson, kilt 4 dears heer." The tupelo in 

 question was a favorite nail sharpening resort of the 

 panthers which trailed the aged or wounded deer in 

 that section and shortly afterwards with their heavy 

 claws the huge brutes completely effaced the boastful 

 record of the enterprising Nimrods. 



That the panther would resent meddling is attested 

 to ])}' George Huff, born in 1835, of White Deer, 

 Union County, who tells how a man named Jacob 

 Lushbaugh, a hunter in the White Deer Mountains, 

 in trying to rescue a favorite dog from the grip of a 

 panther had one of his hands badly lacerated by the 

 monster's fangs. 



