Unseen by readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge's story "Claws"
is a fast-paced adventure tale of a young boy, Paul, lost in the
foreboding terrain of Spencer's Swamp, the domain of the mighty
bobcat Claws, which is deftly evading hounds and hunters alike.
When Paul and Claws encounter one another at a perilous creek
crossing, Rutledge's mastery of outdoors storytelling shines
through in every evocative word.
The short story "Claws" was written for publication in an early
twentieth-century boy's magazine and was first collected in the
privately printed Eddy Press edition of Old Plantation Days (c.
1913). Limited to just a few hundred copies, the Eddy Press edition
is highly prized by Rutledge collectors and includes five
stories--"Claws," "The Doom of Ravenswood," "The Egret's Plumes,"
"The Heart of Regal," and "The Ocean's Menace"--not found in the
more widely available 1921 Stokes edition of Old Plantation
Days.
A project of the Humanities Council SC benefiting the South
Carolina Book Festival, this new edition of Claws is illustrated in
handsome charcoal etchings by Southern artist Stephen Chesley.
Award-winning outdoors writer and noted Rutledge scholar Jim Casada
provides the volume's introduction and retired South Carolina
conservation officer Ben McC. Moise offers an afterword."
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