Running from a panther. One evening a certain lady was going from her house to a neighbor house. The distance was several miles and this was in the times when panthers roamed the Boston Mountains of Arkansas. The lady was carrying her infant child. She encountered a panther and began to run from it. Of course she could not out run the animal but she would take of a piece of the child’s clothing and throw it down. The panther would stop and shred the clothing and take up her trail again. When she had striped the child she started shedding her clothes. When she arrived at her destination she arrived necked but alive.