The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25

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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
/ ran up and kicked him as hard as /
could. was afraid to shoot at him,
as there was danger of killing Darbee
| with the ball. The kick had the de-
sired effect, for the boar turned quick
| ly and rushed upon me. sprang to
one side and he rushed past me. Be-
fore he could turn ard renew the at
tack, had my gun to my shoulder.
The boar dropped, but he was on his
feet again, and, with 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. 1t was thrown
| backward 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 APP
| pearance.
''Darbee had drawn his hunting axe
as soon as he had regained his feet.
He was one of the most fearless men |
ever knew. / have been in close
| quarters with wounded panthers, bears
and deer many times before, and there
had been times when the chances were
against me in such fights, but never in
my experience had | encountered any
| thing that seemed so terrible as this
| Infatuated wild hog Ibelieve 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 between us and met
the crazed brute with blow between
the eyes from the hunting axe. That
blow would have tumbled the largest
and toughest bear that ever walked,
but it had not the slightest effect ON
the boar. Before Darbee could get
out of the way the hog was upon him.
1t thrust one of its tusks through his
corduroy pantaloons, below the left
knee and with a quick upward move
ment tore the left leg half way to OAR
bees waist, but fortunately, only graz
| ing the skin. If the tusk had been in
serted quarter of an inch DEEPER it
would have laid the flesh open as it
did the cloth.
| "When Darbee was knocked over by
the boar, his gun was thrown some
/ distance off in the laurels. / had not
had time to reload mine, and it was
only a single barreled one. | ran to
get Darbee's gun, but before l 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 fought the boar hand to hand.
l plunged the knife into the brute as
near the jugular vein as l had time to
calculate in. The blood spurted out
in great stream, but in spite of all
my efforts, the boar succeeded in tear
ing me pretty badly with his tusks.
| By the time Darbee had loaded the
gun my clothing was in tatters and my
leg and one side badly torn. I kept
plunging the knife into the boar, and
we were both covered with blood.
| "Darbee was afraid to fire after he
had loaded up, so he came to my aid
with his axe. If had been alone
| should have been killed beyond a
doubt, for was beginning to feel the
effects of the boar's tusks in my flesh
Darbee began to chop the boar with
his axe, and the boar turned on
him. Darbee ran back toward
the gun and the boar followed him.
Darbee got the gun and put ball into
the hogs other shoulder, breaking it.
He dropped to the ground and made
great efforts to regain his feet, but he
could not rise. His fury was terrible
to witness. lie tore up the ground
with his tusks, uttered the most fright
full cries, and champed and frothed and
threw himself about on the ground I'M
til he was completely exhausted. Then
Darbee stepped up and finished him by
cutting his throat. The boar was not
fat, but he weighed four hundred
pounds, We used his meat for bait in
our bear traps. This hog had been
born in the woods, and was wild
! boar in every sense of the word. /
ever was known to go out of the way
meeting panther, bear or wolf,
but / made up my mind after that
boar fight that if ever l came across
another one in the beech l would give
it wide berth and seek less danger
Gus game. l guess this one was the
last hog ever seen in the beech Ed