Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-09

lions of gladness and unmistakable fond.
ness, he seemed very stiff and In great
pain when he turned to move quickly. In
his Warmest revealings an occasional SOUND
escaped him, indicative of acute pain. Al
first /, attributed this to last nights war
fare; but as his anguish appeared to be IN
tOlerable, and he at times turned his glances
towards his right flank, and from that his
expressive eyes sought mine, determined
to discover the cause if possible. l could
not see his intense sufferings without trying
to know their source, and make an effort
to relieve them. | unslung my heavy
double rifled roer from my shoulders, laid
it down, and knelt upon the ground at his
side, to look at the part at which he gazed
SO earnestly. As l did SO, he actually
stepped sideways nearer to me, as II 10
give me better view-as if anxious tnat
| should do something for him-at all
events / thought SO. laid my head upon
the grass, and saw enough to account lor
any amount of uneasiness-the Wohder
was how the poor creature could move
or stand it was plain his tortures must
be exquisite. | rose to my feet and patteQ
his face, which he laid on my chest. l
knelt again. I saw there was deep
wound in his flank, as though some large
foreign body forced into it and still re-
NAMED imbedded there. l could have no
doubt it was full of matter by its dlsten-
sion of the parts that caused suffering. The
mouth of the wound was fostering, as
wounds will in such climate.
1t was useless only to look--l must do
more. First, must ascertain what the
foreign body was. Would he permit that
.began-not without placing myself that
could quickly regain my feet ii he, made
a hostile demonstration. I need not have
made such preparation / had no soon
er touched the wound than he, moaning
under the agony gave him, positively
leaned towards my hand, and looked at
me with an earnest gaze, which, as read
it, said :osDo all you can for melt is
hard to bear.p found the cause of iall of
this torture was the horn of another rhi-
noceros. which had been forced in UP to
the base, and then, probably, by the des-
perate efforts of both animals, broken of.
How was [ to remove that? Without re-
moving it nothing could be done; all that
could be tried or effected short OF that was
worse than nothing, as it could only give
useless pain, and the poor animal must in
eyitably die IF gangrene had not began
to set in it soon must / looked into the
ewes of the sufferer, their expression was
mild, but il told all his misery-ali his
hope in me. That look seemed to implore
my aid-at any cost he should have 1T ii L
could but devise meansOf affording ben
ficialy.i1oa olin Z 1led i128 % i agg .ain
f=s A terribly offensive discharge oozed
IL nd n hat
in too small o quantity to give ease by tu-
/ endeavored to get him to the
water he was perfectly docile and reaGlly
my effort to get him there.
With some of the silk moss, hanging pen,
dant from the trees, | cleansed the orifice
of the wound, removing some dirt and
more sand and gravel, which adhered to
the glutinous discharge, he gazing beseeeh-
ingly at me all the while, but seemingly
soothed by the bathing. There was no
signs of anger or impatience; his natural
language was all new tome of course l
read it imperfectly, in some instances
but l fancy his anguish was
assuaged, and that he wished
the applications continued. / was sensible
that beyond this effect it could have no
really beneficial all was done
in vain unless the horn was extracted.
/ got hold oft, passing my hand beneath
it in the wound; the poor fellow roared
fearfully; if ever an angry demonstration
might be expected, it was then, but there
was none; he merely placed his face upon
or against my chest, as before; and al
though his colossal frame trembled violent
ly under his fierce pangs, and the large
tears rolled from his eyes, he licked my
hand. had started to my feet, lest the
agony had caused might have generated
anger, sbut it was a vain apprehension !;
poor Rhino' only felt gratitude for my
imperfect aid. 1 had not given the pain
without an object-I wished to know the
form of the base of the horn and the COM
parative size of the part above it, had
thought Of several ways of accomplishing
the extraction, rejecting all-because i
was destitute of everything needful to re-
duce them to practice. Having ascertained
the. size of the base of the horn, and that
some knobby excrescrences were there, L
fancied had got what my Irish servant
always called bright meaning thereby
a bright idea. l resolved to cherish it, lest
might not get another.
Up tot that moment Iihad been working
in the dark, now l saw what all men de-
sire-light. | was as sure of saving my
poor friends life, and ending his agonies,
as had previously been doubtful. In my
knapsack Icarried two ropes, used to tie
up springbok or any other animal when
killed and broken up;' they were not
very thick, but well twisted, strong and
very flexible, being always more or less
greasy. joined the ropes, and to them
united the straps which prevented me from
falling out of bed during my slumbers.
One of these straps | wished to pass
around the horn above tits base; and to
effect this, tact and force. were required.
it could neither be q 3ae quickly, nor with
out much torture, yet twas indispensable.
At last the strap was fixed and thoroughly
secured. / re-examined my work, and
thought it effectively done. The next
thing was, would the ropes go around the
trunk of the tree. That, by getting my
patient to go as close to the tree as posi-
BILE, was effected, with about q foot of rope
to spare when duly secured. Then came
the greatest difficulty of all, how could L
prevail upon the animal to back even if
/ could make him understand what was
necessary.
L placed one hand upon his horn, the
other upon his wide brow; looked into
his eyes, they we're mild as ever. | stood
before him free from apprehension, and
endeavored to make him know what [
wished him to do, e., to reirograde The
horn had been driven in from front to rear;
itmust be drawn out from rear to 'front.'
After two or three efforts / got him to
comprehend that step backwards was
needful. 81 He made it it was short one,
insufficient for the requirements of the
case. pressed my whole force against his
face, still talking to him he made another,
and in doing so felt all the acute agony
caused by full traction Never till then