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Show HE HAD THE PANTHER . f 1 H Romancer's Yain of a Wild Seact ft r Hunt lu.the Buckeye I V H State. I L M The Old Romancer was feeling pretty I fW. good when Ihe look his iiieustomed I H seut on Iho flour barrel In the stoie S M Mt the other night und he was not nvcrsa j jj H to talking about some nt his adven- b ' UM tuns 'Iho boys knew that his Inno f ! H tent little tales found Ihclr origin In ? 1 H his teeming Imagination but th, y wero n. I LH ahvuys willing to listen, If only to pasa K I H tho time, f j UM "cs" said Ihe Old Roinnnicr re- I i sH flectlvely, 'It was In Ohio 1 lunem- I (l fH her It well as It was a very dark night J ft H and I was driving homo in my wagon. ?i Jl Mt It was u lonely nnd desol.Uo country . ii sH lu llmso ilt,)H, und my loud Ii I M' bbV throut,!, tho wildest section ot It i IfH There were it good many wild beasts ' I bB piowllng ubout und I ulwavs muled I LH a rllle, as I didn't know what tlmo I I-, J 1 might have to use It I was a pretty I 1 H goal shot, If I do my It mjstlf, and ft '! tH wasn t afraid or anything' ft! 1 Tho old man chuckled softly as If ro- u Mt calling some thrilling scene and eon- fi ' H tinned 'The road over whlili I wns R ; H traveling wus nveihiing with the Is ' M liranehes nt treoH, and us I rode along j 'I H I happened to look up und percht I i i sH upon a limb not fur ahead I s.w tho f!t Mt gluing eis i of m . pnnther Iltxiknin ,,' LH and tired Thu horset, bttume fright- ! Mt cned and went down the load like u i jH flash I did nil In my power to tontr 1 ' ' I tH them but It was no use They roi ' M uH trolled the situation, und although It L ftB wus live mllet, home they ran at tlu "' MW top or tlit Ir spied and never stopput ' 1 until they rtucbed the bam H 'What been, nt ot the panther"' i" Mt usked one or his llsteneis t. UM Ihnt wus the funii) part nf It, I ' H When I went to unhitch I happeucl tn f BH look In the Ixil of the ivairon and the i S " was Iho panthei It was still In diath, . ' "( bos -Pittsburg Press f i H |