Discount Beats thought occurred to me, as, looking ahead,

Discount Beats thought occurred to me, as, looking ahead,

I really beheld the town lights glimmering—if I kill my horse, may not the panther be satisfied with his blood, and allow me to escape ? Beats By Dre Discount There was reason in it; and, though a pang shot through me as I thought of sacrificing the noble animal who had borne me on thus far, yet the love of life overcame all scruples. With my penknife I felt carefully for the carotid artery, and, when it was found, plunged "And the huge form of the dead Panther was lying by my side, with the pocket holding the valerianJtrm't/ c'enched in hit teeth."—Page 101. the blade in, inflicting a small but deadly gash. Giving a terrible spring, the hot blood . gushing all over me, he ran as none but a noble horse, in the agonies of death, can run, and then, with a low, reproachful moan, fell dead; whilst I, disengaging myself, at a full run strove to make my escape. I heard the yell of the panther as he reached the horse, and as he stopped I thought myself safe ; but not so long: for again his fierce scream came ringing o'er Discount Dre Beats the air, and I was too well aware of the habits of the animal not to know that when the quarry is being devoured, their voice is still. Suicide by poison, or a more awful death, were all that was now left me. I heard the rapid leap of the panther, yelling at every spring. I uncorked the vial, and was raising it to my lips, when, as if by inspiration, came the blessed thought, that when the panther seized me, to pour the instantaneous poison down his throat. I uttered a low, deep prayer to God, and for one, who, if she had known my peril, would have sought to die with me, and then bracing myself firmly against a tree, with the vial clenched in my right hand, awaited the deadly foe. I heard his shriek, saw a huge form flying through the darkness, felt a keen pang in my shoulder, and then, pouring the acid in the mouth of the panther, fainted. When I recovered consciousness the moon was shining in my upturned face, and the huge form of the dead panther was lying by my side, with the Discount Beats pocket holding the valerian firmly clenched in his teeth. SEEKING A LOCATION It was my intention, after graduating, to return and locate myself in the small town where I had studied my profession; but " circumstances," which exerted such a powerful influence over a late unsuccessful aspirant for political honours, exercised a like power upon me. The death of my preceptor, whilst I was absent attending my last course of lectures, left a vacancy in the profession at home, which was speedily filled, as far as numbers went, by a horde of new-comers. So I found I would have to encounter, if I settled there, a greater competition, without the assistance I calculated deriving from him, than my slender means and already embarrassed finances qualified me to meet. Besides, locating among those who had known me from boyhood, the probation I would have to undergo before I secured their full confidence would be more severe, and of much longer duration, than if I had landed in their midst a perfect stranger. The transition from the boy to the man, and from the mischievous student to the grave, serious physician, is so gradual and imperceptible, that our old and intimate acquaintances do not realize it; and when they should know us as doctor they still give us our youthful appellatives, and regard us as boys. When I landed at home, proud of my new-fledged honours and " sheepskin" as a youiig mother of her first babe, I had, on meeting my former acquaintances, to fling Beats By Dre Cheap my memory back to the eventful examining period to convince myself that I was really a " doctor of medicine ;" for every one, even down to the children, called me "Madison" as before, and none of them seemed a moment to consider that a title, the acquisition of which had cost—both mental and pecuniary—as much as mine, should be occasionally used. In despite of these disadvantageous circumstances, and my own disinclination, it was the opinion of some few friends, to whom I deferred greatly, that I had better locate there; so procuring an office, and having