Show dr coelln Coll ln bad and good luck dr S A collins a connecticut physician had an encounter with a wildcat in the northeastern part of the state which ia rarely equaled in these days attend a patient in he was called to samel comers and lay through a wild wood known as the devils hop yard when about halt way through the canyon the doctors horse gave a snort of fear and refused to go ahead wondering at the cause of the animals fright the doctor leaned out of the carriage and peered into the bushes he had hardly done so when two wildcats sprung from the boughs of a hemlock tree one landed on the haunches of the horse and the other dropped into the bottom of the carriage and fastened its teeth in the the doctors legs A desperate struggle ensued in which the doctor from loss of blood and strength became unconscious in an inside pocket of his coat the doctor carried a small medicine case daring the struggle this fell out and attracted the attention of the cat which began to claw it and tear it with its teeth in doing so it broke a bottle of chloroform and the contents seem to have stupefied it A farmer parsing over the road some time later found the doctor unconscious aal the wildcat among a lot of broken t bottles in the bottom of the carriage in a deep stupor the cat weighed fifty two pounds and was one of the largest ever killed in connecticut cor chicago tribune |