Nevada County picayune., 1888-07-18
vas ahead of me, as I had kept him

back. When the boar saw the dog he lowered his head and began to champ and frsth at the mouth. The boar was fully three feet high. and 1 never saw an uglier looking beast Tn all my experience in the woods. - Inc dog was half hound and half shepherd. He sprans at the boar at once and was received with a lunge and thrown at least ten feet away. with his vitals pierced by the boar s long tusks. The poor dog tried to renew the attack. but he fell. and was soon dead The boar stood his ground as if waiting for me to attack him. l aimed at his fore-shoulder and fired. With q fearful snort the boar turned and ran into the swamp. apparently not injured. Dsrbee heard the gun and soon came up.- We started after the boar. deter mined to bag our game. now that we had it. We came upon him before we knew it. He was lying behind a clump of laurels. He jumped up and sprang at Darbee. who was ahead. and rushed between his legs throwing him down. The boar would have ripped my companion as he did the dog, in another second. but 1 ran up and kicked him as hard as l could. 1 was afraid to shoot at him, as there was danger of killing Darbee with the ball. The kick had the desired effect, for the boar turned quickly and rushed upon me. l sprang to one si6e and he rushed past me. Before he could return and renew the attack. l had my gun to my shoulder. The boar dropped but he was on his feet again, and, with a savage snort. dashed at me on three legs, the other one having been broken by the ball. The froth that came from his jaws was now covered with blood. It was thrown back ward as the great brute ran, and fell in great patches here and there on his body. giving him. with his wild eyes and open mouth, hideous ap- pearance.
 "Darbee had drawn his hunting axe as soon as he mad regained his feet. He was one eff the most fear less men ever knew. have been in close quarters with wounded pan thers, bears and deer many times before. and there had been times when the chances were against me in such fights, but never in my ex- perience had l encountered any thing that seemed so terrible as this infuriated wild hog. l believe l should have soon succumbed to the attack of the animal if Darbee had not been with me. As the boar was rushing at me, Darbee jumped be- tween us and met the craZcd brute with blow between the eyes from the hunting axe. That blow would have tumbled the largest and tough est bear that ever walked, but it had not the slightest effect on the boar. Before Darbec could get of the way the hog was upon him. It thrust one of its tusks through his cordu roy pantaloons, below the left knee and with a quick upward movement tore the leg half way to Darbee's waist, but fortunately, only grazing he skin. If the tusk had been inserted a quarter of an inch deeper, it would have laid the flesh opon as it did the cloth.
 When Darbcc was knocked over by the boar, his gun was thrown some distance off in the laurels. l had not had time to reload mine, and it was only single-barreled one. l ran to get Darbee's gun, but before had found it the boar had again turned its attention to me, and was upon me in the laurels. l drew my hunting knife and shouted to Darbee to load my gun while l fought the boar hand to hand. l plunged the knife into the brute as near the jug ular vein as 1 had time to calculate in. The blood spurted out in a great stream, but in spite of all my efforts the boar succeeded in tearing me pretty badly with his tnsks. By the time Darbce had loaded the gun my clothing was Tn tatters and my leg and one side badly torn. l kept plunging the knife into the boar, and we were both covered with blood,
 "Darbce was afraid to lire alter he had loaded up, so he came to my