Plucky Little Hunters

Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio June 5, 1883


St. Louis, June 5.--A Republican special says: Three boys, Harry Hart and Rufus and Marshall Whitnah--aged respectfully 16, 15 and 13 years, went out squirrel hunting in Iron county last week. They ran across a den of catamounts in Prough's Hollow, about one mile east of Ironton. Their dogs flew the track, but the boys fronted the "varmints" bravely, and brought away their scalps. When they got through killing, the boys had five dead catamounts before them--an old "she" and four half-grown kittens.