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Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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J 5a TAD AND HIS PANTHER. By LeRoy Armstrong. Did you hear the panther last night, Ser-geant ? asked Tad, the captains son. No, said the sergeant, as he cut at thetop of a sage-brush with the loose end of thelariat hangingat his saddle. I did nt hearit, but it yelled,I guess. BillyMurphy wason guard downat Post No. 2,and he did ntdare walk thelength of hisbeat. Let s gothere to-nightand fetch it in,said the boy. No—not! The soldierrarely spoke inso positive amanner to hisyounger com-panion. Theyhad grown tobe quite goodfriends. SoSergeant Gorelooked at thetrim figure byhis side, andadmired — asa cavalrymanwould—Tadsposture in thesaddle. Andthen he gazeddown the long road to the bluff on the shinglyledges of which the panther they had beenspeaking of was said to prowl at night and callto the echoes in that fearsome voice.
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he felt her claws strike at(see p Gore was a well-born, well-trained youngfellow who had enlisted in the ranks of theregular army at a time when penniless and dis-couraged, as has many another son of a good family. Heseemed pecu-liarlyattractiveto this boy.Tad admiredGore becausehe was clever-er than theothers. Gorewas a bettershot and a bet-ter horseman,and he wasthe best wres-tler in the fort.And there isnothing thatso appeals tothe soul of theboy as abilityin that closestruggle of ath-letes, that em-brace of gladi-ators, out ofwhich comesthe triumph ofthe unarmedhands, the vic-tory of the un-aided muscleand skill. And Tadsfather, the cap-tain, had notdiscouraged anassociation which gave his son pleasure andseemed to make the lad more manly. •■ Could nt we kill the panther. Sergeant ? We might, and we might not. The last HUM, AND CATCH AGAIN AND AGAIN.AGE 153.) i52 TAD AND HIS PANTHER. (Dec. man in this troop who went out to kill a pan-ther came back in a sling between two pack-

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