St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-07-21
TREED BY A WILD HOG.
a Hunters Adventure in o Cana.
dian Forest.
scared Almost to Death-Tho Foroclous
Animals Efforts tn Bring tho
Hunter Down-Rcscucd
by . Bear.

city of New York. who entered the
Canadian wilderness for u three
weeks leer hunt We were all iSno-
rant of the fact that there were wild
hogs in the woods. Olc day 1 was on
tramp five miles from our cabin.
when suddenly something jumpcd up
out Of boygy place three or four
rods ahead OF me. snorting in way
that brought me to a stop in ajfy. I
saw that it was one of the biggest and
certainly one of the uglicst looking
hogs l had ever seen. l thought it
belonged 10 an oil half-breed who
lives on patch he had cleared mile
or two from our camp but was so
annoyed ut the way the ugly brute
had frightened me. that l whangcd a
bullet after him. l must have hit
him. for he turned quickly and came for
me rs If he meant business Iwasn't
prepared for this. and dropped my gun
and >hinncd up small beech tree
alongside of which l was standing
l thought of course the animal would
go away as soon rs he found was
out of his reach. but he didn't seem to
be that kind of a hog.
The weather was colder than blast
off the Greenland coast. and it was
getting late in the afternoon. The hog
began walixing around the tree like a
trained hors, in a circus. and at every
step he spit out froih rs if he were
Glowing shaving soap. The tusks he
threw out for me TO gaze upon would
have done credit 10 q young rhinoc-
eros. After circling around the tree
for few minutes, hc was apparently
seized with the idea tn at he would
Snaw the tree down. and ut ii he went
with tho sc fivc-inch tuskS The chips
flew out of that tree rs il he was a
planing-machlnc. and I saw that it
was only n question of time when that
boar would bring me down as unccrc-
moniously IS the coon-hua,er topples
over the tree with the coon in the
crotch; bu. for some reason the hog
gave up the idea when the tree was
about half way cut through. and if lac
had only known it. there was where
he made a big mistake. lie didn't
have more than five inches more to
gnaw b,forc down I would have
come.
After he had quit gnawins the boar
staricl and frothcd around the tree
again for ten minutes. Then he wcat
AWAY a few feet and sat down on his
launches. There he sat for half an
hour looking straight up at me and
gnawinS and snoring and shaking his
heal and scattering fro,h. felt that
! was gradually freezing. B'sides
that it was coming on dark. Ishout-
cd and yelled in hopes that the others
would hear me. but they were too far
away. 49,
Twas just on the point of letting
myself down out of the tree and try
ing n foot-race with the boar. when
Suddenly a new idea seemed to strike
him. lie made one jump for the tree
and began 10 dig the dirt from around
il like a stcam-shovcl The way he
threw tho earth from the roots of the
tree any one would have thought he
had taken a contract 10 dig a cellar.
By and by it dawncd upon me what
the hog was mp 10.
Blast the brute!" said l. He's GO
ing to dig the tree up by the roots"
Then the way we used 10 frightcn
hogs ont of the yard when was a boy
came hack 10 me.
'-S'boy. thcrer' yelled. IS boy.
thcre!
But that hog had been too long in |
the woods TO IS ooy' worth a cent.
Tncn remembered that when I was a
lad and the hogs got in the garden
they always made for the hole in the |
fence when you whistled for the dogs;
20 l whis,lci for on imaginary dog
and called:
"Hyer Tiger! Hyer hy'er! Take |
him. Tiger
But this hog only worked the faster |
the more tried to scare him awav.
and frothcd with increased frothincss
AMI snoried all the louder.
1t got dark. was nearly fr. zen
The sun went down and the moon
came up and still the hog dug
away at the foot Of the trea By this |
time he had an excavation around il
biz enough Tor the cellar Of . corncr |