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and consequently I had to hurry back for my gun, 

 load it again, creep slyly up, take aim at his ear, as 

 before, and give him another shot, which laid him 

 dead on the ground. My first shot had broken his 

 shoulder ; the second pierced his ear, passing down- 

 ward through his tongue ; the last entered one ear, and 

 came out at the other, scattering his brains all around. 

 He measured eleven feet three inches from the end 

 of his nose to the tip of his tail. This was the largest 

 panther I ever killed, and I suppose I have killed at 

 least fifty in ni}- time. 



"I took from this fellow sixteen and a half pounds 

 of rendered tallow. It is something softer than mut- 

 ton tallow, but by mixing it with one-fourth of its 

 weight of beeswax, it makes good candles. I continued 

 hunting the balance of the season, with little success 

 — not killing any bears, although there were great 

 numbers of them in the woods. However, I knew 

 but little of the art of hunting." A panther killed 

 by John Treaster in the Seven Mountains in 187'.j 

 measured, body and head 8 feet, tail 3 feet, total 

 eleven feet, almost the record. Dr. Schoepf describes 

 a shrunken hide of a South Carolina panther as "over 

 five foot from the muzzle to beginning of tail, the tail 

 itself somewhat more than three feet long; the back 

 and sides and head fallow, nearly fawn colored, flanks 

 and belly whitish grey ; the end of tail verged some- 

 what on black, but the rest of the tail was of the color 

 of the body." 



