The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-12-30
Hunting I'm Canada,

THEED BY AWILD BOAR AND SAVED FROM DEATH
BY A ABEAR--F1GHTIEGA a WOUNDED BUCK.
s.1After you shoot a deer, you want to9be
sure he's dead before you attempt to kill
him by cutting his throat" .a.-
This was the recently expressed opinion;
Of Aleck Forbes, Of Port Jervis, we'll;
known Erie railway engineer. Aleck and
Charley Hulsizer, a chum of his, have lately,
returned from a two-weeks' hunt in the.
wilderness OF Canada, one, hundred and
fifty miles north OF st. Thomas.
.Last year Charley and l went out to the.
SAME woods, !" iAleck continued. "Then l.
got treed by wild boar, and thought that
was worse than going down the bank at the:
rate OF forty miles an hour. You see some.
old fellow out there turned some hogs in the;
woods three or fourTyears agos and they
went wild. I started one of 'em one day,
and though I'd have little fun with him.
I sent bullet after him. He changed his
course and made plumb for me. I skinned.
up q beech-tree. ! thought the animal ID
go away when he found I was out OF his
reach, But-he- wasn't that kind of
hog. It was colder than Greenland,
and about 2 O'Clock :. in, the after
noon. Charley and the rest Of the.
party were scattered about in the woods,
out Of hearing. The boar-for he was a.
boar, and big one at that-waltzed around:
that tree, splitting out froth as if he'd;
chewed barrel OF shaying-soap, and show;
ing up pair of tusks like young rhinoce-!
ros'. He tried to gnaw the tree down, and
worked away for an hour with his teeth. /
thought certain he intended to keep right,
on till he brought me down. But by-and-'
by he gave that plan up. The tree wasn't
more than eight inches through, and think
4 ho hno rio r1,iot lya In
there amt any doubt but that he'd fetched
it by early bedtime. But he stopped gnaw-i
ing. - - - -. ~. '-
"Then he went off ten or q dozen feet,
and sat down on his launches. He grunted
and frothed for ut least ten minutes. Then:
new i:lea seemed to strike him. He
jumped back to the, foot Of the tree and:
commenced to shovel the dirt away from it
with his snout, as il he had contract to dig
a cellar. saw what he was at in minute.
He was going to dig up the tree by the
roots. Then I yelled, 'Sboy, there, s'boy I! ,,
But that hog'd been too long in the woods
to s'boy worth cent. Then I whistled for
an imaginary dog, and called, 'H'yer,
Tower! h'yer, h'yer. h'yer!' | remem-
bered that when 1 was a boy, and the hogs
got in the garden, they always made for the
hole in fhe fence when you whistled for the
dog. But this old fellow only frothed the
more and snorted louder and worked the
faster. -
81 was near frozen by the time it grew
dark The sun went down and the moon
came up, and still that hog dug away at the
roots OF that tree. could see that he had
a hole around it big enough to bury an OK
in, and I hope to fly if didn't think the
tree began to totter. 1t got colder and
colder, and the boar kept right on roofing.
/ began to wonder who they would put on
my engine in my place., and whether the
Internal hog would leave my bones so the
boys might find Fem and take 'em
home to my folks. Once at about
O'Clock, thought I'd shin down the
might as we'll be killed in trying to get away
as to die like sheep ina pen. So l began
to let myself quietly down. ! had my
hands on the lower branches, with my legs
hanging down the trunk, when the hog
smelt the rat He gave q snort that made
the very tree shake, and raised up on his
hind feet to meet me half way. / was back
to- within two feet Of the top OF the tree in
less time than it would take red squirrel
to Jump rail-fence.
--"sIt's no use,,I said. 'Unless some o.
the boys come along inside OF an hour, I'm
La goner.' About ten minutes after that the
hog suddenly stopped digging. BE seemed
to listen for minute; then, with string
Of the most unearthly snorts, he started on
d dead run off towards Wolf swamp - i
g. What's up p ,said.E In less than five
! seconds knew what was up. Out o. the
brush to the right came tearing and groWl-
ing one OF the biggest bears l ever saw.
He never stopped but let himself out the
best he knew how after the boar. Pork is
one OF the choice deIlcacies in the proven
der of bear. The hog had considerable
start of the bear, but at the rate the bear
. was going, as saw him by the light of the
moon disappear over the brow OF the ridge,
I think he must have come up with the
hog and had his coveted lunch. I ddn'
wait for any news from the seat of war
but got out OF that tree about as lively as
had got into it, picked up my gun, anG
! made for camp. got in about u O'Clock
: The boys had been out looking for me, anG
had given me up for lost. They felt gooc
when I showed up.
. "But the little circus had with a wound
! ed buck this fall think discounts the boar
fight. A week ago last Friday Charley anG
: started big buck, aud we both put bal
in him. Ny shot brought him down. HI
fell about three rods from the bank OF Crook
ed creek, at the foot Of a big tree. He lay
stretched out as ii he'd been dead week
and walked .leisurely upto him to cut hi:
throat. Istraddled the carcass, and stopped
over with my knife in my hand to sevel
E the jugular-vein. took hold OF one OF hl:
antlers with one hand. BE was ive-prons
buck, and the biggest one ever saw.
was Just putting the knife to his throa
I when the deer sprang to his feet. AL
I though badly wounded, he had only beer
! stunned by my shot. He was no soone
8 on his feet than he started on at goo(
E thirty-mile gait, with me on his horns, lik
\ grim death. stuck; to him for an eighth o
o a mile. Then he stopped as suddenly as
8 be bad fetched up against the side Of house
5 But went right on. think I shot aheat
!. at least twenty feetsbefore l touched any
e thing. I struck in the top OF a big oak tre
= that had been blown down, and wentcrash
{ ing through the branches as if I'd been sho
l out of cannon. / didn't have time to fins
! out whether was burt or not, for the dee
came springing right in after me, and
, knew had to tight. A wounded buck i
> the. worst thing q hunter has to deal witt
: when it comes to close quarters. The wa,
= they can use their horns and feet in tigh
: is more than wonderful.
: 81 avoided his fore-feet as he spran.
. upon me, grasped one anter with my righ
J, hand, and threw my left arm around hi
+ neck. It was lucky thing for me that W,
had wounded the deer in the hind-quar
ters. This disabled him badly, and gay
me an advantage. We wrestled over
+ space of easy half On acre. he >couldn'
{ get his head up high enough to thrns
q his sharp horns into me, although TIT
!. | u,1rFono nj hia auflarp fnra nlc ha n II