The Osceola times., 1882-07-15

cape Of their prey and spent an hour
crashing their teeth and jumping fruit
lessly at Cooks dangling legs. Al ergnav .
ing the bark entirely off the butt OF the
tree they streached themselves on the
ground and waited for Cook to come
down aud be eaten. Cooks runaway
horae was stopped at the Mount Misery
toll gate and as the owner of the aquine
did not appear before dark, a party Of
nlen started to hunt for him. The ap-
proach Of this party frightened the hogs
| off and Cooke was saved. lie WAS in tho
tree five hours and he declares that he
could not have stuck to his perch much
longer.
Nearly all the wild hogs that have
been seen in Burlington county are Of a
dirty brown color and their legs and
snouts are much longer than domesti-
Gated swine. Cooke said that one of the
hogs that treed him was jet black.
Two DAYS after Cookies adventure a
farmer named Berry was chased across
thirty-acre field by drove of hogs, and
| to escape from them, was compelled to
take refuge in hay barricks. They kept
him blockaded abou. an hour and then
went away. This occurred in the morn.
ing, mile south of the Patterson tavern
| That afternoon the same drove, led by
a black boar, killed and devoured two
dogs on the farm of Josua Ludwig, four
miles to the south.
On Tuesday last Hiram B. Barclay saw
his flock of sheep running wildly around
their pasture field. Supposing that they
were attacked by dogs Barclay got his
gun and ran TO the field, where he found
| five hogs feeding on a nice, fat meiino
eve. Barclay shot and crippled brown
hog and the others retrerted rapidly. He
killed the crippled hog with another
shot.
On the following day the same band Of
| hogs gave chase To farmer named Muir
ply, who lives in Tally-ho, and was driv-
| ing home when the porky pirates sighted
him. They raided John Tierney's poul-
try yard on Tuesday evening and remain.
ed there all night. On Wednesday morn
ing Terney. who is a farmland, was nm
able to leave the house on account ofthe
hogs that roamed around the yard in
search OF live or dead food. As Terny
had no gun he, his wife and three daugh-
ters were compelled TO remain in doors,
watching their blockaders chasing chick
ems and ducks around the yard until
noon. when the four hogs trooped away
and Tierney came at once to Browns
mills and told his story. A hunting party
OF eleven men was organized and the pur-
suit of the hogs began. The trail was fol.
lowed from Tierney's place TO Big Pine
swamp, where two Of the hogs were
killed. Two escaped and after them the
dogs and hunters went cross country
through uuaking bogs and muddy creeks
and underbrush and clumps of pin,
woodsuntil at last the game was brought
to bay. In the battle that ensued two
dogs were killed and half dozen other
were wounded by the tusks of the swine
Seven bullets killed one of the hogs an,
thirteen were fired into the breast of
black boar, no doubt the one that ha'
Cooke up the tree. The hunters saw m
other hogs during this chase; but it !
said that a number live in the Ryal
smash" eight or nine miles south of tNi
place. The heads ofthe four hogs killec
on Thursday we're on exehition here yes
terday, and attracted a greet deal OF at
tention. Two of them, black and /
brown, were purchased by Genera
Hustled and will be sent to Philadelphia
handsomely mounted and used as hal
ornaments.