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wounded, so he backed away, the lion still sitting on his 

 haunches looking on, and made his exit from the swamp as 

 quickly and quietly as he could. Andrew ran to the nearest 

 farm houses, gave the alarm, and a hunting party was speedily 

 organized, but, as it was getting towards nightfall, they thought 

 it wise not to enter the swamp that day, but to meet in the 

 morning with an increased number of men and dogs. This was 

 done, and the neighbouring swamps and woods hunted through,, 

 but the lion was neither heard nor seen. 



No one ever doubted Andrew's story, for he was well known 

 as a truthful and upright man, but as he positively asserted it 

 was a lion which he saw, it was thought he was mistaken in his 

 identification. He had seen lions in a menagerie, and might 

 readily mistake the Panther for a lioness. 



About the same date, 1839, as near as it is possible to fix it,, 

 David Baker had commenced a clearing on Lot 12, 8th Con. 

 Whitchurch. There was not a dwelling house on the lot, and 

 he made his home at his father's, about a couple of miles 

 distant. On returning from his work one evening, he saw what 

 he said he knew to be a " painter." The animal was lying on a 

 fallen pine tree, close by the footpath ; the head was erect, and 

 Baker saw it was looking intently at him. He saw a movement, 

 of the tail, which was hanging over the side of the log towards 

 him ; it did not shew the slightest sign of fear, and he was 

 within thirty yards of it. At the first glance he thought, from the 

 colour of the beast, it was a deer. He was carrying his trusty 

 rifle in his hand, but " in a moment of weakness " he decided 

 not to fire, for fear the animal would attack him in case he failed 

 to kill it at the first shot, and so he turned and made a near cut 

 to the nearest clearing, and he did not think it followed him. 



David Baker became a well-known, worthy Whitchurch 

 farmer, a truthful and reliable man. I knew him intimately* 

 and was often out hunting in his company. H.e was well 

 acquainted with the habits of bears, wolves and lynx, being an 

 adept at shooting and trapping them, and could not be mistaken 

 in his identification of the animal. I last saw him in the 

 autumn of 1891, when he was on his way to Michigan, where I 

 believe he is now residing. 



