Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
He pIdn,t Catch on.

There are many things in th;z
world that look comparatively easv
hut which trial demonstrates calI
forth a mans most serious effort. We
have always labored under the IN.
preston that sixty pound pig could
be grabbed by the hind leg and car.
ried of with comparative ease BY !
man OF ordinary size. This crude idsa
however, has loosened its grip on b.
during the last few DAYS.
Recently we ambled up to ~
MIC like d member OF the MarihattsT
Rail club getting on deck for a str,ka
and reached for his hind leg. JusS
then he had to take u step We had I,ot
expected him to make, and the lea
was not there any More. Several
more reaches were made, but all fell
short. and what was the most suy.
prising part of it, the pig. which was
so absorbed III its roofing that hs
never looked up. always happened ID
move Just at theright time to be missed
While regarding it as acoihcidence tfof
the animal did not even know we wers
there, wa stole up so quietly, it was
one of those annoying coincidences
that it is not easy to account for. live
were writing d 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. tpjl
down on it bodily. Again one of thoas
Internal chance movements tool
place. The pig took two steps ID
rather O. potato. and We fell fat nm
the place where the pig had Just been.
Then he looked round for the Hrss
time. and. perceiving us lying there.
prunted his astenishment and trot.
ted away. He was so aston,shed AZ
seeing man lying there on hi,
stomach. splitting gravel out OF his
mouth, that he went of and stuck his
head in barrel to give hiJ brain 4
rest.
Then we slid up quietly and by 4
finely calculated cryptogramus nova.
ment snatched him by the hind leo.
This was probably what CAUSED ths
barrel to rise up suddenly and hit ne
on the nose. The wrestling match
seemed to begin az this point. First
we got a collar and elbow hold on thu
barrel and stood it on its head. Then
the pig got a grape vine lock and
| threw us over the barrel. Than
we got a Cornish grip on the animal
| and threw him, and we're in turn
| downed by the barrel. Then we got =
| half Nelson. GRECO. Roman 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
| a new style of wrestling, hereto.
| lore unkno 9n 80 tI5, turned us sonsr.
sault. Ii a pig blind-foldcd by
a barrel could play this sort Of
| games, it occurred to us that the.
was no telling what he might not do
with his head loose. This idea, and the
feeling that he might put his head out
| of the barrel, or the barrel head out.
| or get MS out OF our head, had most
| demoralizing effect. Suddenly, BY
coup de main act, we stood the bar.
| rel on cod, with the pig shindquarters
in the air, and thought we had the
match won; but the animal wigglsd
down in the barrel, and as we lower
ed it on its side to prevent his weight
annoying him any further, he made
an extraordinary movement. He
smashed out the barrel head, and. al
we had him by the leg, dragged Us
after him into the barrel. When we
let go, to prevent the nails in the bar.
rel from tearing our new clothes, we
found ourselves in the barrel and the
pig in a field about hall a 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 Nsv.) Ap
| neal.