The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . esting chiefly on the brain, from whence itglared in bright horror from its burning eyes, curled in its strong and vibrating tail, pushedout its white, elliptical claws, from its broad and powerful paws, its hot breath glittered on thepoints of its uncovered teeth, and smoked in rapid issues of steam from its red and open jaws,while every hair of its long, dun back stood erect in savage joy, denoting that the moment ofits fatal leap had come. Now the
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . esting chiefly on the brain, from whence itglared in bright horror from its burning eyes, curled in its strong and vibrating tail, pushedout its white, elliptical claws, from its broad and powerful paws, its hot breath glittered on thepoints of its uncovered teeth, and smoked in rapid issues of steam from its red and open jaws,while every hair of its long, dun back stood erect in savage joy, denoting that the moment ofits fatal leap had come. Now the horrid rustling of its hinder claws drawn under its belly was heard, and the bentham-strings were seen but half an instant by Wheaton, from where he stood in the tree, whenthe tremendous leap was made. It rose on a long curve into the air, about ten feet in thehighest place, and thence descending, it struck exactly where the breast and bowels of its in-tended prey had lain, with a scream too horrible for description, when it tore to atoms therotten wood, filling, for several feet above it, the air with leaves and light brush, the covering. , 26 Wheaton and the Panther. of the deception. But instantly, the panther found herself cheated, and seemed t© droopa little with disappointment; when, however, it resumed its erect posture, and surveyedquite around on every side a horizontal line, in search of its prey ; but not discovering it, shecast a furious look aloft, among the tops of the trees, when, in a moment or two, the eyes ofWheaton and the panther met. Now for another leap, when she drooped for that purpose ;but the bullet was off, and two buckshot of the old smooth bore were too quick, as he lodgedthem exactly in the brain of the savage monster, and stretched her on the spot where thehunter had slept, but a short time before, in the soundness of a mountain dream. He had marked the spot where her young were hidden, which, at the report of the gun,were frightened, and ran up
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