human
The panther bit him in the shoulder close to the neck, continued Amy, folding the tucker away and lifting out the blue silk coat.
gpt
They were on the floor of the school-house in the last struggle when Erskine got there. He had gone for Phoebe Lovejoy's cows, because it was raining and she couldn't go herself; and he heard John as he was passing. He said his voice sounded like the bellow of a dying bull.
human
Is he much hurt? Where is he? Did you go to see him? ho dressed his wound? Who is with him?
gpt
They carried him home, said Amy, turning round to the light and pressing the beautiful silk coat in against her figure with little kicks at the skirt.
human
No; I didn't go; Joseph came round and told me. He didn't think the wound was very dangerous--necessarily. One of his hands was terribly clawed.
gpt
A panther? In town? In his schoolroom?
human
You know Erskine keeps a pet panther. I heard him tell Mrs. Poythress it was a female, said Amy with an apologetic icy, knowing little laugh.
gpt
And he said this one had been prowling about in the edge of the canebrakes for several days. He had been trying to get a shot at it. He says it was nearly starved: that was why it wanted to eat John whole before breakfast.