A Brave Woman.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 19 May 1886, Page 4

A Brave Woman.

On Saturday night, .■*«ya an American newspaper, George Greenlej»f, accompanied by bis wife, wa* rehimiu# home from Clnylon. It was ahout 9 o clock, nnd, us is the custom of the country, they Im«h walked up one of the hilla while tho mules and waggon mwemled, their little buy being driver. RncMenly a rustle was heard m the bush<>>., nml peeiing out m tho djtrfc«e** could Vie seen what looked like two bills of fire. As If by instinct Grerlertf opened his kni*e, and as the beast mndt* a spring at him be made a lunge, only to di;ive the knife into aim wif«'« arm, «he having thrown 'herself upon him at the sight of danger. He dropped the knife nerveless, and fell under the second spring of the panther, the beaut being now maddene >iy the Mcent of Wood. J»st as the animal was about "to insert it teeth m MrGreenleaf.thewife who had picked tin the knif«\ and iictiiig under the inspiration of dfK|ieiatif>n, took a clean oht nt the be«ht'j* throat. The panther gave one cry, and rolled over. The cry alarmed the hunters at B leek lev's house, near V.y. nnd almost instantly* a number <;f them were on tho spot, nulir to 6nd that a woman hud a.^complisbed what ih'r»y had betsn six weeks trying to do. „