News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-12
CATCHING 4 PIG.
Valuable Points From One Who Has
Performed the Feat.
From the Carson (Nev.1 AppeaI !

From the Carson (Nev.) Appeal
There are many things in this world
that look comparatively easy, but which
a trial demonstrates calls forth mans
most serious efforts. We have always
labored under the impression that a 60
pound pig could be grabbed by the hind
leg and carried off with comparative
ease by man of ordinary size. This
crude idea, however, has loosened its
| grip on us during the last few days.
Last Thursday we ambled up to a pig
| like member of the Manhattan Ball
Club getting on deck for a strike, and
reached for his hind leg. just then he
had to take a step we had not expected
him to make, and the leg was not there
any more. Several more reaches were
made, but they all fell short, and what
was the most surprising part of it, the
pig, which was SO absorbed in its root
ing that he never looked up, always
happened to move just at the right time
to be missed. While regarding it as a
coincidence for the animal did not
even know we were there, we stole up
SO quietly it was one of those annoying
condolences that is not easy to account
for. If we were writing a treatise on CO.
incidence we should give this promi-
nent place. Presently we got the ami
NAL in q corner and, in order to be sure,
fell down on it bodily. Again one of
those Internal chance movements took
place. The pig took two steps to gather
potatoe, and we fell fiat on the place
where the pig had been. Then he
looked round for the first time, and, per-
ceiving MS lying there, grunted his as
tonishment and trotted away.
He was 80 astonished at seeing a man
lying there on his stomach, splitting
gravel out of his mouth, that ne went
off and stuck his head in barrel to give
his brain a rest. Then we slid up quiet
ly and by finely calculated cryptic
gramus movement snatched him by the
hind leg. This was probably what
caused the barrel to rise up suddenly
and hit us on the nose. The wrestling
match seemed to begin at this point.
First we got collar-and-elbow hold on
the barrel and stood it ON its head.
Then the pig got grapevine lock ard
threw us over the barrel. Then we got
q Cornish grip ON the animal and threw
him, and were in turn downed by the
barrel. Then we got half Nelson,
Gr@co-Roman lock on the pigs neck,
but it got out with half turn and SOM
ersault and grabbed us by the seat of
the trousers. Claim of foul disallowed
by female referee ON the front steps. on
the grounds that the pigs tail had also
been grabbed in the turn. Then the
pig, with a new style of wrestling, here
tofore unknown to us, turned us a
somersault. If pig blindfolded by a
barrel could play this sort of games, it
occurred to us that there was no telling
what he might not do with his head
loose. This idea, and the feeling that
he might put his head out of the barrel,
or the barrel-head out, or get us out of
our head, had most tdemoralizing effect.
Suddenly, by q coup de main act, we
stood the barrel on end, with the pigs
hlndquarters in the air, and thought
that we had the match won; but the
animal wiggled down in the barrel, and
as we lowered it on its side to prevent
his weight annoying him any further he
made an extraordinary movement. He
smashed out the barrel-head, and, as we
had him by the leg, dragged us after
him into the barrel. When we let
go, to prevent the nails in the barrel
from tearing our new clothes, we found
ourselves in the barrel and the pig in
field about half mile from the house.
A woman who had been sitting on the
steps to act as a referee, gave the match
to the pig.