TRC Panther Lair

Some call them the forest girls,'' said Ute. ''Others call them the panther girls, for they dress themselves in the teeth and skins of the forest panthers, which they slay with their spears and bows.'' I looked at her.''They live in the forest without men,'' she said, ''saving those they enslave, and then sell, when tiring of them. They shave the heads of their male slaves in that fashion to humiliate them. And that, too, is the way they sell them, that all the world may know that they fell slave to females, who then sold them.''

''Who are these women'' I asked. ''Where do they come from?''

''Some were doubltless once slaves,'' said Ute. ''Others were once free women. Perhaps they did not care for matches arranged by their parents. Perhaps they did not care for the ways of their cities with respect to women. Who knows? In many cities a free woman may not even leave her dwelling without the permission of a male guardian or member of her family.'' Ute smiled up at me. ''In many cities a slave girl is more free to come and go, and be happy, than a free woman.''

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