Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-25
euoo7lNc THE RHlNocERos.
che Hero OF Tfaceard's King Solo
boT Mines Shot the Great Besst.

mon Mines shot she ofeHt BEAST
r.Lino nv eight-bore rifle and
~ dozen spare cartridges in my
~ SGT made detou', and reaching
ant-heap in safety, lay down. For
" n,@ment the wind had dropped, but
.sntly a gentle puff of air passed
~ me and blew on toward the rhi-
,,sros. By-the-way, wonder what
~ ~ that smells so strong about MANI
! !. 4 his body or his breath? I have
.ro,. been able Ia make out, but | saw
a.,erbere the other day that in the
vi vi decoys the man who is working
~ Jucks holds a little piece of burn
=, turf before his mouth, and that il
~ does this they cannot smell him,
-bicb looks as though it were the
18Th. Well, whatever it was about
tbat attracted his attention, the
Iinoeeros soon smelt me, and within
an minute after the puff Of wind
s,d passed he was up turning around
- pt his head up-wind. There he
97d for few seconds and SMILED,
mi then he began to move, first of all
= a trot: then, as the scent grew
granger at a furious gallop. On he
anne, snorting like runaway engine,
rtb his tail stuck straight up in the
ar. if he had seen me lie down there,
No could not have made a better line.
I, was rather nervous work, can tell
rm. living there waiting for his on
| asngbt. for he looked like a mountain
| otdesh. / determined, however, not
N fire till could plainly see his eye,
| hr think that rule always gives one
he RICH distance for his game. So /
ra.tpd my rifle 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
ajmng straight for the middle of the
chest, pulled.
Tbud went the heavy bullet, and
NTH tremendous snort over rolled
be rhinocerus beneath its shock, Just
me- a shot rabbit But if had thought
Nat he was done for | was mistaken,
br in another second he was up and
ooming at me as hard as ever, only
with his head held low. ! waited till
he was within ten yards, in the hope
fiat he would expose his chest, but he
you'd do nothing of the sort So
inst had TO ire at his head with the
| left barrel, and take my chance. Well,
Is mck would have it, Of course the
animal put his horn in the way of the
| billet which cut clean drought it
about three inches above the root, and
then glanced of into space. After that
| thing. got rather serious. Ny gun was
empty. and the rhinOceros was rapidly
arriving so rapidly, indeed, that had
better make way from him. Accord
ingy ! Jumped to my feet and ran to
the right a. hard as could 20. As
dd SO he arrived fun tilt, knocked my
friendly ant-heap flat, and for the see
Oud time that day went a most mag
ndtent cropper. This gave me few
second start. and ran down wind
NY word, | did rum Unfortunately,
however, my modest retreat was OBJ
served, and the rhinoceros, rs soon as
he got his legs again, set to work to
run after me- Now no man on earth
csn run rs fast as an irritated rhinoce-
F0s can gallup, and | knew he must
soon catch me mp. But having some
slight experience of this sort of thing,
luckily for myself, kept my head,
snd as fled | managed to open my
nile, ret the old cartridges out, and
put two fresh ones in. 70 do this had
70 steady my pace little, and hy the
time that ! had snapped the rifle to |
beard him snorting and laundering
away within a few PAGES Of my back.
stopped, and as | did so rapidly
cooked the rifle, and slowed around
upon my heel. BY this time the brute
~, within six OF seven yards of me,
but luckily his head was up. lifted
1e rifle and fired at him. 1t was a
snap shot, but the bullet struck him in
tht chest within three inches of the
lT,, md found its way into his lungs.
Ndd not stop him. however; so al
could do was TO bound to one side,
which J did with surprising activity,
and q, ha brushed past me fire the
other barrel into hi, side. That did
for him. The ball passed in behind
ne shoulder and right through his
heart He fell over on his side, gave
one most awful squeala dozen pigs |
could net have made such a noise
aaa promptly died, keeping his wicked |
gNW.dc open all the time
AS i'r me. ! blew my nose, and go
ing mp 90 the rhinoceros, sat on his
le4d and reflected that | had had a
mornings shooting. II. Rider
E4y3lra, ~ Hafpcy's Magazine.