New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-23
He Didn't Catch on,

Tie Didn't Catch On,
There are many things in this
world that look comparatively easy,
but which a trial demonstrates call
forth a man S most serious effort. We
have always labored under the I'M
preston that a sixty pound pig could
be grabbed by the hind leg and car
ried off with comparative ease by a
man OF ordinary size. This crude idea,
however, has loosened its grip on us
during the last few days.
Recently we ambled up to a
pig like a member OF the Manhattan
Ball club getting on deck for strike.
and reached for his hind leg. just
then he had to take step we had not
expected him to make, and the leg
was not there any more. Several
more reaches were made, but all fell
short, and what was the most sur
prlsing part of it, the pig, which was
SO absorbed in it's roofing that he
never looked up, always happened to
movelust at theright time to be missed.
While regarding it as q coincidence tor
the animal did not even know we We're
there, we stole up SO quietly, it was
one OF those annoying condolences
that it IS not easy to account for 1t we
We're writing a treatise on coincidence
we should give this a prominent place.
Presently we got the animal in a cor
ner, and, in order to be sure, fell.
down on it bodily. Again one ofthose
Internal chance movements took
place. The pig took two steps to
gather a potato. and we fell flat on
the place where the pig had just been.
Then he looked round for the first
time. and, perceiving us lying there,
grunted his astonishment and trot-
ted away. He was so aston;shed at
seeing q man lying there on his
stomach, splitting gravel out OF his
mouth, that he went off and stuck his
head in a barrel to give his brain a
rest.
Then we slid up quietly and by a
finely calculated cryptogramus move
ment 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
Il
we got a collar and elbow hold on the
barrel and stood it on its head. Then
the pig got a grape vine lock and
threw US over the. barrel Then
we got Cornish grip on. the animal
and threw him, and were in turn
downed by the barrel. Then we got a
half Nelson. Greco.Romaa lock on
the pigs neck. but it got out with a
half turn and somersault and grab
bed US by the seat OF the trousers.
Claim OF foul disalloWed by female
referee on the front steps, on grounds
that the pigs tail had also been grab
bed in the turn. Then the pig, with
new style Of wrestling. hereto.
fore unkno Wn to US, turned us asomer-
sault. Ii pig blind-folded bv
a barrel could play this sort OF
games, it occurred to US that there
was no telling what he might not do
with his haadloose. 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 a most
demoralizing effect Suddenly, by a
coup de main act, we stood the bar
rel on end, with the pig 'shindouarters
in the air. and thought we had the
match won; but the animal wiggled
down in the barrel, and AIS we lower
ed it on its side to prevent his weight
annoying him any further, hemade
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 90, to prevent the nails in the bar
rel from tearing our new clio thes, we
found ourselves in the barrel and the
pig in a 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. Carson (Nev. APP
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