Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-09
A FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
WHAT OLD NICK SMITH SAW FROM
HIS PERCH IN A TREE.

Panther and Drove of Wild Hogs Fight
for q Deer--Fifteen Porkers Laid Out
stifi and Cold. but Their Side Won.
ENothing Left Of Deer Panther.
Nick Smith, the old North Mountain
hunter and trapper, who lives in a cave Of
the mountain in its deepest Businesses, came
TO Big Cherry Gap, N. O., few days since,
and is still there His life in the woods and
mountains of the old North state has been
varied and adventurous enough to satisfy
half dozen men, but Smith still remains
true to his natural born instincts, his father
been noted hunter and trapper in his day
For the past few days. or ever since Smith
hos been here, have diligently piled him
with questions and listened To his stories
until have enough to ill an octave volume
All OF them are doubtless true certainly
most of them interesting One Of them, the
story of fight between wild hogs and a
panther, will tell In his own language as
near MS possibe
about ten year ago, nears as ken rckol
lect, was huntin' on top of North mountain
about twenty miles from here. ! had killed
big buck an he'd jest finished skinnin him
when heerd the squealu' Nv drove of wild
hogs You kin bet just hung that buck up
In a tree quick as | could, for them critters is
the pryenest things an the neanest ye ever
saw. Why, If they get mad they'll tackle
anything. Wen, he'd jes got my deer safe
when heerd them cumming a-squealin' an
a-gruntin'
NICK TOOK TO A TREE.
81 bed to hunt safe place myself, fur ther
wuz no a-shootng' one where there's,
maybe, forty If killed one I'D he'd to XIII
lem all; they'd never leave long as one Of 'cn
wuz alive. throwed the gun strap over my
shoulder an took to II good sized tree about
twenty yards from where hung the deer
Them hogs put in an appearance just as ! got
onto n big limb about fifteen feet above the
ground They wuz led by dwo big boars,
and wuz twenty nine ov 'em all told. They
smell the blood an the deer, rooted up the
leaves and ground with their long noses TN
tore around generally until they found the
tree where the deer wuz hung. just abou,
this time heard something jumpin from
tree to tree on the lower side OF the rise an
purity soon saw the long, slim body Of the
biggest painter | ever saw jump onto limit
Nv IA tree about seven or eight yards from the
limb the deer hung on
Them hogs hadn't yit winCied the painter mn
they kept up such a racket squeain' and
gruntin tibet they hedn't heerd him. The
painter didn't see the hogs until he struck the
last tree, when he wuz almost over them. lie
Jest lad himself out full length on the limb
and watched them, all the time slowly wavin
his tail back an forth an shown his teeth
He knowcd he he'd To GIT tibet meet while il
wuz in the tree or hev the fight Nv his life
fur it If ii got to the ground. After bit the
painter seemed to make up his mind, fur he
gos his feet under him nm squatted | tel
ye, stranger, tibet wuz IA purity jump Thet
painter jest sailed through the air an landed
plump on the limb over the deer When the
painter struck the limb the hogs quit squeal
in an tearin' round and formed themselves
In ring with the body of the deer in the
center above them They begun to foam al
tho mouth an snap their tusks. What .
noise they made They wuz the mad
dest an awfeest lookin animals
ever saw All this time tho painter
wuz trying TO haul the deer up to him witt
his paw, but every time he'd git the deel
swung partly round the sincws with which
he wu2 fastened TO the limb wud make it Sill
back. Purity soon the painter seemed to SET
the trouble, fur no grabbed the buck viii
one paw while he reached down and bit tn
deer loose. There's where the painter mad
the biggest mistake Of his life, for h
couldn't hold the deer when the fastonin'
wu2 cut, an in spite NV him it tore loos
the drove of hogs, They jumped on it, an
tore 1t into pieces quclsern | kin tell ye Tn
painter WIZ SO mad that he lost his judgment
or he wouldn't hey done such foolish thin,
as he did, fur he gave ono snarl an wa
among them hogs in u second, knocking tw
OF them over rs he landed. Then there wa
fight The hogs quit the deer an went fu
the painter Now be wuz down an' then NJ
TuE HOGS WERE NOT IDLE.
"Over went hog, ripped wide open, here
while there another got a wipe with that hi,
paw which made him see stars. But the hog
wrzut idle. BY no means They ripped ~
tore tibet painter fore an aft There wuz
dozen loag cuts on his sides am legs, an hi
body was covered with blood SIGH snarlin
screamin', squealm, rippin' an toarin'
never did see. In less time than | kin tell /
eleven uvfhem hogs wuz laid out an two o
three more wuz hurt but tho painter WI
purity near knocked out. too He wua layit
ON his back, an every time hog got in reac
OF his claws no wud give him a rip whic
wud knock tibet hog out, at least fur while
Que hog made lungo at the painters head
an got caught 10y the throat by the painter
but tibet wuz his last act for one NV the boar
drove his long tusks into the painters bell
an literally ripped him wide open from on
end to the other, an in less than three second
tibet painter wu2 tore into pieces.
''Ihe hogs took up the pieces, bones an al
an crunched an ground them till uothiI
could be seen of tho animal big enough {
make gun wad. Thet wuz n battle scrt
There wuz about fifteen dead hogs and six o
eight tore and gashed from snout to tail
don't believe single one escaped some ii
jury. But the livin' ones, whether wounde
or not, jst kept toarin' round till they cleane
up all that wuz left of the deer an painter.
II bed set on that limb an watched Tn
fight until it wuz finished an never Though
OF my gun, am if he'd don't believe wa
hey used it, but now that it wuz over 6ile,
I'd hev To kill the rest OF the hogs or stay O
the tree all night, SO | commenced ON ther
an killed the last one of them After TIA
first shot the living ones surrounded my tire
and tried to get ut me, an they stayed a
night there till keeled over the last on,
After | he'd cleaned them out | started 10
home, an for the first time in long Will
got there without any meat. Cincir
matt Enquirer.
Rules for Fat People and Tor Lean.
Too increase the weight. Eat to the exteu