The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-04-05
A HuNTER,S STNRY.
How He was Overcome and the Way by
which He was Finally Saved.

. Correspondence Spirit of the Tymes.)
An unusual adventure which recently
occurred to your correspondent while hunt
ing at Brookmere in this State is so timely
and contains so much that can DO made
valuable to all readers, that venture to
reproduce it entire:
The day was a most inclement one and
the snow quite deep. Rabbit tracks were
plentiful, but they principally led in the
direction of large swamp, i'll which the
rabbits could run without difficulty, but
where the hunter constantly broke through
the thin ice, sinking into the half-froZen
mire to his knees. Notwithst anding these
difficulties, the writer had persevered, al
though very small bag of game was the
result. While tramping about through
pal ticularly malarial portion OF the swamp,
a middle aged man suddenly came into
view carrying muzzle loading shotgun
and completely loaded down with game of
the finest description. Natural curiosity,
aside from the involuntary envy that in
stinctively arose, prompted the writer to
enter into conversation with the man, with
the following result:
You've had fine success, where did you
get all that gamew
Right here, in the swamp"
It's pretty rough hunting in these parts,
every other STEP"
Yes, it's not very pleasant, but am
used to it and don't mind it,"
How long have you hunte ID hereabouts ?n
Why, bless you, i have lived here most
OF my life and hunted up to ten years ago
every year."
How does It happen you omitted the
last ten YearsW
Because was scarcely able to move,
much less hunt"
don't understand yous'
Wei, you see, about ten years ago, aft.
been trnmylinu all n sv.
this same swampfl felt quite pain in my
ankle. / didn't mind it very much, but It
kept troubling me for day or two, and
could see that it kept increasing. The next
tnlng knew, felt the same kind of pain
in my shoulder and found it panied me
TO move my arm. This thing kept going
on and increasing, and though / tried to
snake or the feeling and make myself think
It was only little temporary trouble,
FOUND that 1t did not go. Shortly after this
my joints began to ache at the knees and
nnally became SO bad that lad to remain
In the house most of the time"
And did youtra all this to the fact that
you had hunted so much in this swamp?''
NO, didn't know what to lay 1t to, but
| knew that was in misery. My joints
flesh had left was punched at the ioinis:
my myers crooked in every way and some
OF them became double iointed. In fact.
every joint in my body seemed to vie with
the Others to see which could become the
largest and cause me the greatest suffer.
ing; In this way several years passed on,
curing which time was pretty neArly
helpless. became so nervous and sensi-
tive that / would sit bolstered up in the
chair and call TO people that entered the
room not to come near me, or even touch
my chair. While all this was going on,
felt an awful burning heat and fever, with
occasional chills running all over my body,
out especially along nv back and throu9h
my shoulders. Then again my blood seemed
to be boiling and my brain to be on fire."
DIDN'T you try to prevent all this
Try, should think did try. tried
every Doctor that came within my reach
near 81. ! used washes and liniments
enough to last me for all time, but the only
T rbied received was by injections Of Nor.