ack Susan, stretc and in, and he said:

    quot;Do you kno a pant? a great, big, ?”

    quot;No,quot; said Laura.

    quot;ell, it is, said Pa. quot;Just imagine Black Susan bigger t like a panther.”

    tled Laura and Mary more comfortably on ;Ill tell you about Grandpa and ther.”

    quot;Your Grandpa?quot; Laura asked.

    quot;No, Laura, your Grandpa. My father.”

    quot;O; Laura said, and s Pas arm. She Big oods, in a big log house. Pa began:

    tory of Grandpa and t;Your Grandpa  to toe starting  was dark w ened, for he had no gun.”

    quot;; Laura asked.

    quot;Like a ; said Pa. quot;Like t; t Laura and Mary serror.,  Ma jumped in ;Mercy, Charles! “

    But Laura and Mary loved to be scared like t.

    quot;t, for it  it could not get a  as t screamed no was always close behind.

    quot;Grandpa leaned foro run faster. t as it could possibly run, and still ther screamed close behind.

    quot;t a glimpse of it, as it leaped from treetop to treetop, almost over;It imes bigger than Black Susan.

    It  if it leaped on Grandpa it could kill s enormous, slass long seeth.

    quot;Grandpa, on  just as a mouse runs from a cat.

    quot;t scream any more. Grandpa did not see it any more. But  it er s might.

    quot;At last to Grandpas  jumped off t t t be where Grandpa had been.

    quot;terribly, and ran. o ts cla Grandpa grabbed  to t in time to s ther dead.

    Grandpa said  his gun.”

    old tory, Laura