Doc Punch Sloth

Doc Savage it was who bagged their breakfast. A large ground sloth flushed up in their path. A bronze flash, Doc's mighty form overhauled it. A rap of his mighty fist stunned the creature. It resembled a cross between a tailless opossum and a small bear, and looked inviting enough.

"It feeds on herbs and such fruit as there is," Doc decided. "It shouldn't be bad eating!"

It wasn't. But before eating, while the sloth was cooking over a fire near a steaming brook, Doc took his exercises. He never neglected these. The previous morning he had taken them in the tree, although he had not slept a wink during the night.

- The Land of Terror (1933) Chapter 20