The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-21
Eating on Wagers.

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+ The papers. dispatches. etc, have
been full OF accounts of the progress
made by q man named Walcott, in New
York, at eating two quails day for
thirty da s, on wager. Crowds have
visited the place where he was doing
the eating. and the people OF America
have been entertained with descriptions
o. the rapid mannerin which the human
glutton tore to pieces the quail and de-
posited the meat in his capacious
stomach, and the bones beside his plate
The man Waloott complished the feat
and won the bet. and he is ooked upon
as hero and pointed at as the man who
ste the sixty uails, and it Is not inn
probable that he viii be nominated for
President in 1881. A similar case has
created. q good deal of interest in Mil
waukee, and in case Walcott is nom
mated for President we want to see the
Milwaukee party occupy the second
pl ace on the ticket Among the hogs
at the stock-yards in this city Is one who
never seemed to get enough to eat He
would eat all there was in sight, and
drive the other hogs away from the
trough, and II a man threw an ear of
corn at this pointer hog he would catch
it and eat IL. though it knocked out his
teeth. About the time it was announced
that Walcott was going to, eat G match
at quail, stock -drover offered to bet he
had ong Island pointer hog that
cou,d eat q bushel 1of corn q day. for
tn rty consecutive days, and sporting
man took him, up. The contest was APP
pointed to take place at a hog pen ad-
Joining road house, and the hog COM
menced on his first bushel of corn on
the LIST of january, in the presence of q
number of other hogs. and seyeral men
who were interested in the bet The
champion got away with his first bnshel
OF corn In forty minutes, and grunted
for more, and was going to chew
Off piece o. the trough. but he WAS
driven away with q club. His trainer
gave him bottle Of pepsin. and he lad
down, and took q nap, and next morn
ing he was hungry for more. The hog
ate theSsecond 6ushel in 9 en- q shorter
time than the first, and kept it mp for
about twenty days. and seemed to be
having picnic II WAS q soft thing
for the hog. He was the Observed of
al observers. Other hogs did not at
tract passing notise, but everybody
around the stock-yards pointed to the
pointer as he lay, under, the shed.
grunting with a belly full of corn, and
said THAT is the champion hog. He
is daisy" The hog got so he would
not grunt at other hogs, and he seemed
to put on sha @ at once People would
visit the stock-y ards and they had only
eyes Tor this hog. and they wonld punch
him in the ribs. and pull his bristles out
for .keepsakes to wear in lockets.
Other hogs would be standing around
the troughs making good records on
swill, but nobody paid any attention to
them. On the twenty-frst day the hog
lost his appetite ior corn and he yearned
Tor swill, bat he had to eat the corr
or nothing. e looked sick. and bets
of two TO one were u ade that he would
fail. but the baeker. who knew his hog.
took all the bets, and his protege tinal y
worried down the corn. but he drove
some other hogs away, from an ,ad AGENT
trough OF swill and ate it, for dessert.
Each day alter that the hog walked up
to his bushel of corn as though it was
his grave be was visiting, and his lace
seemed to have lost its expression o
con dence. and be would sit down on
his b nd legs and look at the corn
as though 1t was castor oil or blue
pills, but his ira ner and backer won d
encourages the hog by telling him The
ewes of the world were upon him, and
to weaken now would cause bett NJ
men to forever lose confden e n hogs.
and the pride of the hog won d be
touched and he woul get up and
paralyze the bushel of corn, am the
applause of the other hogs On The
twenty fifth day the hog struck, and
wouldn't shell his corn. Previous to
that he had taken il from the cob BY
placing his feet on the ear o, corn. and
gnawing the kernel oil. but now he in
sisted on having it shelled. and his
backer shelled it The hog had diff
Guilty in getting it down even then. and
he was not the devil-may-care hog III u
he had been at the beginning of the
match On the twenty-seveuth day the
hog struck again. and insisted on hav-
ing the corn boile !, and that was done
tor him. and he got along well until the
last day, when his teeth were scie, anu
he had not the pluck to tackle boiled
corn. He sat on his launches. and
held his head up. with his mouth open.
and his backer shoveled in the corn.
and, as the last shovel full went the
way of the previous thirty bushels.
great cheer arose, and the Long Island
pointer hog was declared the winner Of
the greatest match on record. excep
that of the quail-eater of ew York.
But the hog tainted away, and it was
only by an immediate application OF
swin that his life was saved. It was a
victory, however, and the hackers O.
the Milwaukee hog are willing to back
him against anyth ng OF the kind in
ew .ork. push shots barred. No one
has watchef the progress o. the quail-
ca er OF New York with greater inter
est than the hackers of The stock-yard
hog.-Peck'S sun. &c. =.