Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

the time got behind it! 1 ran for an
other and he almost nabbed me before
got to it.
There was no other tree beyond that
one within fifty OF sixty feet, but hsd 10
run again, and before / could get tci
tree he was down on me with a wicked
squeal and grabbed me by the shoulder
like tiger, blowing his foam all over
me.
IN en- instant I was tvitched of my
feet and dragged along through the brush
and grass. Never in my life have I ex-
perIenced moment of such complete
hoPelessness and terror. l was as power
less as IT lion had seized upon me.
FOR iOo yards, tnink, l was dragged
res1stlessly along, the stallion going at
fuH speed One moment 1 was swung
O. ear CT the ground; the next, I was
thrashed over logs and br ars.
suddenly my deerskin jacket gave
way and L fell into a little arroyo or gully
as the animal tounded over it. | fell
among some reeds and vines, and had the
sense to crawl little out OF sight into
them and lie still, though | was half atun.
ned and dreadfuily shaken up.
''It was we'll I got 80 cover, for the in
furlated stallion came rushing back, as
if IN search of me, and lea ped the artoyo
again close by where I lay. he galloped
away toward where [ now heard nv own
horse whinnying, and after moment Or
two, frightful sqUealing and the dull
thud OF horses hoofs kicking kicking,
plainly indicated that battle was in
progress between them.
"For some Tins l lay still there, feeling
quite unable to stir; but the outcry which
the two horses made aroused me at
length to the assistance OF my own good
steed. In great pain, and half fainting
at times, | crawled along the ground to
where had left my rifle and secured it,
THE horses we're still fighting or rather
my own had got the worst of the battle
and was trying to escape from the wild
stallion. They were coursing along at
distance Of half q mile 90 the plain. But
still loyal TO his master, my own horse
circled around and came racing back to
the timber. The halter rope had been
pulled off his nose in the tracas, but
swung from his left fore leg, where l had
tied it, and as he ran it at length coiled
around the other leg and threw him
heavily.
"Completely vorsted, the poor fellow
made not an effort to rise, but lay out
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his conqueror, who paved at him in
triumph, but was himself painting and
fecked with foam all along his glossy
sides.
''My moment for revenge had come.
had strength 20 rest my rifle across log
at the edge of the timber, and at dis
lance of about twenty rods put a bullet
into the body of the dangerous animal.
As fired he gave utterance to wild cry
and dashed away, but fell after running
300 or 400 yards, and lay writhing.
"It was at least an hour more before /
could muster sufficient strength to get
where my own horse lay. | feared that
he was fatally injured. But to my great
delight he got up at an encouraging word
from me-having laid there all that time
in q kind of faint, think.
"He was badly bitten, and had more
than score of great welts and puffed-up
Jumps upon his sides and fanks-the
marks of his adversary's hoofs.
Gas for myself, my jacket was torn
badly and my shoulder was painfully
wrenched and pinched by the stallion's
teeth"