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FOREST AND STREAM 
January 3, 1914. 
and ran up on a high root. Long fired and broke 
the brute’s back. The dogs then rushed in, but 
the panther whipped them off. Then Long, to 
save the dogs, ran in and tomahawked the crea¬ 
ture. Long was now about eighteen years of age. 
At another time a panther sprang from a high 
tree for Long. Long fired and killed the panther 
before it reached him, but the animal striking 
Long on the shoulder the weight felled him to 
the earth. 
In 1815 six brothers of Cornplanter’s tribe of 
Indians erected wigwams in the Beaver Meadows, 
where Du Bois, Pennsylvania, now stands. 
In 1826 Ludwig Long moved to Ohio, and 
young Bill went with the family. He remained 
there about twenty months; but finding little 
game, concluded to return to the mountain-hills 
of Jefferson County, then the paradise of hunters. 
In 1828, William Long married Mrs. Nancy Bart¬ 
lett, formerly Miss Nancy Mason, and com¬ 
menced married life in a log cabin on the North 
Fork, three miles from where Brookville now 
is. About this time, game being plentiful, and 
the scalps, skins, and saddles being hard to carry, 
Bill Long induced a colored man named Charles 
Southerland to built a cabin near him. Long was 
to provide for Charlie’s family. The cabin was 
built, and Southerland served Long for about five 
years. Charles never carried a gun. I remember 
both these characters well in my childhood, and 
doctored Long and his wife in my early practice 
and as late as 1862. In 1830, taking Charlie, 
Long started up the North Fork for bears; it 
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