“I inquired why they called it the gowrow, and was told that that was the awful cry it uttered when engaged in its devilish work. During the recent snow, a youngster who resides in the neighborhood discovered the tracks of the gowrow while out rabbit-hunting.     Being alarmed at the ponderous size and peculiar shape he fled in great consternation to a farm house and notified the inmates of the presence of the tracks. We formed a posse, armed ourselves with shotguns and Winchesters and started in hot pursuit of the gowrow. We followed the tracks without difficulty for several miles through the new fallen snow until the disappeared at the river bank. The monster evidently entered the river and thus escaped pursuers. A diligent search was made of the river bank for a number of miles which resulted in the discovery of an enormous cave which was so nicely concealed under a shelf of rock, and so completely hid by a thick clump of cedars that it had hitherto escaped the notice of the inhabitants of the country.     The ground had been worn smooth form the water’s edge to where the cave entered the rock, as though some ponderous body had been repeatedly dragged over it. We soon secured light wood torches and, nothing daunted, entered the cavern where we were confronted by a sight which made each particular hair stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine.     As the flickering light of the pine knots illuminated the erstwhile darkness of the cave, casting our distorted shadows against the shaggy rock, there grinned at us

countless skeletons and skulls of all kinds and sizes, many of them evidently those of unfortunate human beings while others seemed ot have belonged to horses, sheep, hogs, dogs and wild animals that had served a dainty repast for the gowrow at some time.     “We hastened out of the cave and concelaed ourselves behind a large boulder to await the monster’s homecoming. We had waited probably a half hour when we heard a ponderous splashing in the river as though a great stern wheel steamer was approaching, and the next moment a huge body of a sickly green hur dragged itself awkwardly out of the water and began wabbling its way toward the cave. Shall I attempt to describe it?     Its head was ponderous in size and resembled some what that of a man. only two enormous tusks projected over the under lip. Its legs were short and thick and terminated into a web foot somewhat resembled that of a duck’s, only each toe was capped by a vicious looking claw. Its body was covered with enermous scales, while along its back bristled a series of sharp horns, which came to an abrupt end near the root of the tail. The tail was thin and long was provided with a sharp bone at the end which the gowrow could wield as a sickle, and when enraged would prove a formidable weapon. Just as this point I got in the snap shot (which is printed with this article) with my kodak, and then I gave the command to fire. The men fired in a volley and when the smoke cleared away we saw the monster writhing in the throes of death, but he died hard. With his ponderous tail he