Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-30
FUN WITH A CREASED FIG.
rhe Ancient Custom of Catching a
Creased Porker in Nevada.
Virginia City Chronicle

The announcement that a creased
mig would be liberated at the skating
rink attracted large crowd. A young
norker. we'll loaded with fat from the
ribs Of some of its late rela-
t1yes. was turned loose in the rink. 1t
is estimated that 500 people were in
the rink, about 400 of whom were the
fair sex. They wanted to see that the
pig got fair play. The pig was iiberat-
ed amid breathless excitement, and
after looking about for few moments
laid himself fiat down and refused to
move. The presence of so many
ladies overcan2e the animal, and he
experienced the usual stage fright in
cidental to first appearance.
The bashful pig was borne away by
a skater, who soon disposed of it to q
Chinese porker sharp for $4
Nj. Cagwin attributed the cheap
falling down of the pig to lack Of
sand, accounted for by the fact that
ii was not thoroughbred and that it
hailed from Churchill county.
On Saturday, afternoon he secured
a thoroughbred Berkshire, dead game
from the shout down. He and Som
mers attempted to grease it. Sommers
held the pig while Cagwin slneared
on the lard. The pig slid under Som
mers. and he tried to hold him by lock-
ing his legs around him. The lock
didn't hold and the pig go away, but
Sommers didn't lose the lard. He
kept it there right on hIs clothes. Then
Cagwin held the pig while Somers
creased it. The pig got away the
same way again, and Cogwin held on
the lard just as bravely as Sommers.
Then they got Meder to keep hold
of one of the pigs legs. Meder said
when he couldn't hold forty pound
pig he'd quit painting carriages. They
got the pig well larded, and then it
began to climb up onto Meder, and
the three men threw il down on its
back and lay down on it to hol1 it.
The pig got away, however, and each
man accused the others of letting go
holds. They didn't let the pig get
away with any lard, though. but held
onto it with their clothes every time
They looked like buttered crackers.
Then Meder got the pig in corner
and grabbed him by the hind leg like
a Carson editor grabbing a cold leg of
mutton on a lunch counter. The pig
broke for the door and Meder was
pulled after him, stretched at full
length, and Harding the lean earth as
he Slid along. Meder Nas dead game,
however, and held on like Reno to a
public building. A lady was passing
and the pig struck her just at the
ankle, and she went down all over
Meder. The pig disappeared around
the bank corner, upsetting Evan Will
liams, who was just coming out.
The Infatuated woman disentangled
herself from Meder and began to
belabor him with a parasol.
Here was where Meder lost most of
his lard, in having been transferred
TO the new gros grain silk of the lady
he met on the walk-by chance-the
usual way.
This is why there was no creased
pork q. the rink last night Somers
and Cagwin say they like the creased
pig chase, but thy sport requires too
much preparation.
Johnny Sweeney, the live man of
Carson, is trying to make terms with
Sam DaviS-who is noted for his grasp
on pork-to give a champion exhibit
ton, and the elite of the capital are
in a state Of joyous anticipation.