“Schoolteacher Isola Kennedy, while relaxing beside Coyote Creek near the town of Morgan Hill [California], saw a lioness jump from the bank and attack a boy wading in the stream.  According to the Morgan Hill Times, 'Miss Kennedy ran to his assistance, when the animal jumped upon her, knocking her down.'  For fifteen minutes, Kennedy wrestled the lion—which chewed off her left ear and mangled her left arm while she attempted to stab the cat with a large hatpin—until a man arrived with a rifle and shot the cougar.”
[pp. 86-87]