Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-10-11
MaiWa's Revenge.
(By mistake this column was omitted
last week in making up the paper.)


but saw somewhere the other day that in
the duck decoys the man who is working the
ducks holds little piece of burning turf be-
fore his mouth, and that if he does this they
cannot smell him, which looks as though it
were the breath. Well, whatever it was
about me tina: attracted his attention, the
rhinoceros soon smelt me, and within half n
minute after the puff of wind had passed. no
was up and turning round to get his head up
wind There no stood for a few seconds and
shifted and then he began to move, first Of
nll a trot, then, as the scent grew stronger,
at furious gallop. On he came, snorting
like runaway engine, with his tail stuck
straight up in the air; If he had seen mo lie
down there he could not have made better
line. 1t was rather nervous work, / can tell
you, lying there waiting for his onslaught,
for he looked like a mountain OF FLESH. de
termined, however, not to fire till | could
plainly see his eye for | think that rule al
ways gives one the right distance for big
game. So rested my rife on the ant heap
and waited for him, kneeling At last, when
he was about forty yards away, | saw that
the time had come, and aiming straight for
the middle of the chest, pulled.
'Thud we9t the heavy bullet, and with
tremendous snort over rolled the rhinoceros
beneath its shock, just like shot rabbit.
But if had thought that no was done for
/ was mistaken, for in another second he was
up and coming Mt me as hard as ever, crly
with his head held low. | waited till he was
within ten yards, in the hope that he would
expose his chest, but he would do nothing OF
the sort. So | just had TO fire at his boad
with the left barrel, and take my chance
We'll, as luck would have it, of course the
animal put its horn in the way Of the bullet,
which cut clean through it about thrca
inches above the root, and then glanced Off
into space After that things got rather
serious. Ny gun was empty, and the rhinoc-
eros was rapidly aTiying-so rapidly, in
deed, that came TO tho conclusion that
had better make way for him. Accordingly
j jumped to my feet and ran to tic right cs
hard as could go. As l did so, be arrived
full tilt, knocked my friendly ant heap fiat,
and for the second time that day went most
magnificent cropper. This gavo a few sec
ends start, and | ran down wind-lny word,
l did run. Unfortunately, however, my
modest retreat was observed, and the
rhinoceros, as soon us no got his
legs again, set TO work to run after
me. Now no man on earth can run as fast as
an irritated rhinoceros can gallop, and /
knew that he must soon catch me up. But
having some slight experience of this sort Of
thing, !, luckily for myself, kept my head, and
as fled managed to open my rifle, get the
old cartridges out, and put two fresh ones in.
To do this had to steady my pace a little,
and by the time that | had snapped the rifle
TO | heard him snorting and laundering
away within few PAGES of my ba k.
stopped, and as did so rapidly cooked tho
rifle and slowed around upon my heel BY
this time the brute was within six or seven
yards of me, but luckily his head was up. | !
lifted the rifle and fired at him. It was q
snap shot, but the bullet struck him in tho
chest within three inches of the first, and |
found its way into his lungs 1t did not stop |
him, however, so all could do was to bound |
to one side, which | did with surprising ac- |
tivity, and as he brushed past me, fire the |
other barrel into his side. That did for him.
The ball passed in behind the shoulder and |
right through his heart He fell over on to
his side, gave one most awful squeal-a
dozen pigs could not have made such noise
and promptly died, keeping his wicked
eyes wide open all the time
"As for me, blew my nose and. going IN
to the rhinoceros, sat on his head and re-
hected that | had had capital mornings
shooting.