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Leggatt's, told me that in the next fall to the one referred to by 

 Mr. Leggatt (1848 ?) he and his brother went into the woods 

 one evening in search of the oxen, which had strayed away. 

 Each took a different direction, and it was getting quite dark 

 when he heard a loud cry, and, thinking it was his brother 

 calling to him, he answered the call. In a few moments the 

 cry was repeated much nearer to him ; he then knew it was the 

 Panther, and he took to his heels as fast as he could towards 

 the clearings, the animal following him closely until he came to 

 the public road, when he heard no more of it. His brother had 

 got home some time before, having found the oxen. Later in 

 the fall, one beautiful moonlight night, he was awakened from 

 his sleep by hearing his dogs barking savagely while running up 

 the lane towards the house, evidently chased by some animal, 

 and, knowing the dogs were not cowardly, he concluded some- 

 thing serious was wrong, and arose out of bed, and on opening 

 the door he saw the dogs run into their kennel under the house, 

 closely pursued by a large yellow animal with a long tail. The 

 opening of the door attracted the beast's attention, and pre- 

 vented him from following the dogs under the house. It was 

 but the act of a moment to seize his always loaded rifle and fire 

 at the animal, which then gave a frightful scream and ran 

 around the end of the house and jumped into the woods, but he 

 could not say whether it was wounded or not. The scream was 

 the same as he had heard in the woods when searching for the 

 oxen, only louder and wilder. 



He also stated that the beast was very troublesome to settlers 

 in the Township, running cattle and sometimes killing pigs, 

 sheep and young cattle. One evening his cattle came galloping 

 home looking terribly frightened, and blowing as if from a long 

 chase, and it was seen that a yearling heifer was terribly torn on 

 the flanks and rump by the claws of some large animal. 



The statements of these men were perfectly reliable ; they 

 were industrious, substantial farmers, and good, truthful 

 Christian men. 



In the same year (1853), while on the rounds of my circuit, I 

 went to the house of a good Christian family to stay for the 

 night. They told me that a farmer, whose name I have for- 



