Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-10-14


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battle. The champions clash their
jaws and sniite their armed cheeks,
bowling. and screaming, and foam
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he charges over the lazy sleeTers.
and each down-trodden hog howls.
The victor growls content for a
time, but the battle breaks out anew
at unexpected places, and the end
of the prairie hog is not peace. One
spotted brute in particular seems to
he furious or ravenous, and bent
upon eating somebody, for he kept
charging opened.mouthed ut distant
dreaming hogs, trampIing on every.
body, and biting viciously at ears,
tails and legs, and everything that
came in its way. But the hour of
execution was at hand. It was the
first dag of some new machinery,
and it took time to get it into gear.
On the upper story of the building
were the cxccutioncrs. They were
tall, wel-grown men, chiefly Ger
MAS, probably y used to sansages ut
home. They were dressed for their
work in sailors water-proofs, leg.
gings and frock, and each was armed
with some deadly weapon and a
steel. TO while away the time
they chaited pleasantly they whetted
their knives aud felt the edge, and
as they felt they smiled.
At one end ofthe building was a
large trough, in which steam. pipe
heated water to the scalding point.
The grand invention, which was to
work for the first time that day, was
a great iron claw, which dipped un-
der water and rose again, like an
iron hand with five fingers. 1t was
meant to hook ont the pigs which
wcr. quarterering down stairs in the
pea. Below this iron hand was a
'ong sloping table, and at tic foot
of it was a gibbct, with hooks aud
turntables, wheels and rails. for
shnnting split pigs across the rafters.
When steam power had been ap'
Piled to tfe wrist of the iron hand, a
signal was given and the spectators
scrambled out of the way, uP the
rsfters, and anywhere. Outside Il
doorwas opercdin thepongpen below
and a certain number were drivee
into passage and up an incline
rlanc, where they stood quarreling
to the very last. The top door was
opened, and two small pens were
nearly done. A sweet-smiling,
rosy, dandy new hand, a youth in
yellow leggings, and armed with q
hammer, stepped in among them, and
dead silence followed him. A hatch
like rat.trap, rose up, a fat body
slid down by way Of rollers, and
plnmped into tho tub. and secoud
followed-plump. Tho two sca!d-
ers now stirred the pat, and final!y y
pushed pig into the iron hand; 1t
turned its wrist and emptied the
handful on the table. Another fol-
lowed. and vet another and the
stream oi pork. once set agoing.
flowed on. Out If the prairie. the
pigs drove ss railway sleea into the
hog ren- Out cf the pen they
walked up stairs. quzrrel~ssne live
p;rs. and sffy ~ere dead. ss.sded.
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