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forgot all about being afraid.” And then, with a joyful bark, he 
would rush off to repeat the performance. 
In a few minutes the men joined me, having heard the shots, and 
Gale and Davis carried the panther out in the open ground at the 
edge of the cypress swamp. Here we photographed her, after 
which Davis and I rode out to camp some twenty miles away, 
taking the panther with us and leaving Gale to spend the night with 
two old hunters, Smith and Wooten, who were in camp some 
three miles away. This panther was a female and measured 
about seven feet in length from nose to tip of tail. The next day 
Gale had a very peculiar experience with a panther, which is 
worthy of relating.. As Gale tells the story, after I had left him 
he walked to Smith’s camp as I had directed, taking the dogs with 
him. The next morning he started bright and early with the two 
