. In the bosom of the Comanches;. for the brave and unflinching work of old Red, thehound, v;ho seized the mother panther in the beginningof the attack and during the fight never released his hold,notwithstanding the horrible uounds and laceration hereceived. In this way the mother panther, the morevicious of the two, as would naturally be the case, wasbadly handicapped. We would shoot and both pantherswould continue to advance, and we must have shot themten to fifteen times before kiUing them. They were intentupon but one thing, and that was our destruction, andhad we retreated the least bit,
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. for the brave and unflinching work of old Red, thehound, v;ho seized the mother panther in the beginningof the attack and during the fight never released his hold,notwithstanding the horrible uounds and laceration hereceived. In this way the mother panther, the morevicious of the two, as would naturally be the case, wasbadly handicapped. We would shoot and both pantherswould continue to advance, and we must have shot themten to fifteen times before kiUing them. They were intentupon but one thing, and that was our destruction, andhad we retreated the least bit, or had missed our aim inany instance, we could not and v/ould not have survivedthe combat. We carried our young panther to the ranch,and with the general treatment we administered it be-came very docile and was valued highly by us as a rarepet. Just as we were becoming much attached to it, DutchJoe came up from Sherman and we made him a presentof the young panther, which he took with him on his In the Bosom or the Comaxches 125. 126 In the Bosom of the Comanches return to Sherman. The wild hogs referred to on theWichita river were the offspring of a stock of hogsowned by the man Gilbert, who had the hardihood toestablish his home on the Red river some fifteen milesdistant before the Cil War. These hogs had wanderedfrom Red river to the woodlands bordering on Wichitariver, and there multiplied in great number, and werejust as wild and vicious as any of the other dangerousdenizens of the plains or woods. We derived a great dealof excitement from the chase of these v/ild hogs with ourblood-hound, old Red, as the chase was always full ofzest and danger. Another danger more dreadful than wild beasts, andone that in the summer and fall seasons lurked ever near,was that of the fatal fangs of the venomous rattlesnakesthat abounded in great numbers on every hand. Thesewere the black and diamond rattlesnakes, frequentlyattaining a length of six to eight feet, and having fromten to twent
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