The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-23
CATCHING 1 PIG.
Valuable Points From One Who Has
Performed the Feat.
From the Carson New Aproai.1

From the Carson [Nev : Aprcal1
There are many things in this world
hat lgoh conpagatiTelv easy, but which
a trial demonstrates calls forth mans
most serious efforts. We have always
labOred under the impression that a TO-
pound pig could be grabbed by the hind
leg ana carried off with comparative
ease by a man n ordinary size This
crude idea, however, has looSened its
grip on US during the last few days.
Last Thursday we ambled up TO pix
like member Of the Manhattan Ball
Club getting on deck for "a strike, and
reached for Ills hind leg. Just then he
had to take q step We lad not expected
hum TO make. and the leg was not there
any more. Several more reaches were
made, bat they all feI short, and what
was the most surprising part Of it, the
pig, which was so absorbed in its root
ing that he never looked up, always
happened to move Just ct the right time
to be missed. While regarding II as a
coincidence for the animal did not
even know We were there, we stole up
so quietly it was one Of those annoying
condolences that is n, easy to account
for If we were writ < a treatise on CO.
incidence We should give this a promi-
nent place. Presently We got the ami
nal in corner and, in order to be sure,
fell down on it bodily. Again one q
those Internal chance movements took
place. The pig took two steps to gather
potatoe, and we fell fiat on the place
where the pig Lad been. Then he
looked round for the first time, and, per
ceiving rs lying there, grunted his as
constituent and trotted away,
He was SO astonished at seeing a man
lying there on his stomach, splitting
gravel out of his mouth, that he went
off and stuck his head in barrel to give
his bIain a rest. Then we slid up quiet
ly and by a finely calculated cryptic
gramus movement snat he'd him by the
hind leg. This was probably what
caused the barrel 10 rise up suddenly
and hit us on the nose The wrestling
match seemed to begin at this point.
First we got a cOllar-and-elbOw hold on
the barrel and stood it on its head.
Then the pig got grapevine lock and
threw us over the barrel. Then we got
Cornish grip ON The animal and threw
him, and were in turn dOWned by the
barrel. Then We got a half Nelson,
GRECO Roman lock on the pigs neck,
but it got out with q half turn and SOM
ersault and grabbed us by the seat of
the trousers. Claim of foul disallowed
by female referee on the front steps, on
the grounds that the pigs tail had also
been grabbed in the turn. Then the
pig, with a new style of wrestling, here
tOfOre unknown to us, turned us 9
8Omersault If pig blindfolded by :
barrel could play this sort of games, il
occurred to us that there was no telling
what he might not do with his head
loose This idea, and the feeling thai
he might put his head out of the barrel
or the barrel head out, or get us out o
our head, had most demOralizing effect
Suddenly, by coup de main act, We
stood the barrel on end, with the pig's
| headquarters in the air, and though
| that we had the match Won; but tn,
animal wiggled down in the barrel, anC
as we lowered it on its side to proven
his weight annoying him any further h
made an extraordinary movement. HI
smashed out the barrel head, and, as w
| had him by the leg, dragged us afte
him into the barrel. When "e le
| go, to prevent the nails in the barre
from tearing our new clothes, we founC
ourselves in the barrel and the pig Ill
| field about half mile from the house
| A woman who had been sitting on Gh
steps to act as referee, gave the mattel
tH tho MO