The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-26
FIGHT TO THE Deaf 4
q Panther vanquished and De-
voured by Wild Hogs.

a Panther VanquiShed and De.
voured by Wild Hogs.
What = North Carolina Hunter Saw GA tho
1op Of North Mountain-A Snarline,
screanine, squealing, Ripping
and Tearing Scene.
A letter from Cherry Gap, N. c., to the
Cincinnati Enquirer says: "Nick Smith, the
old North Mountain hunter and trapper,
who lives in cavo Of the mountain in it's
deepest fastness, came here few days
since, and is still hero I have diligently
Piled him with questions and listened to his
,storics until I have enough to fill an octave
volume. One Of them, the story of a fight
between wild hogs and @ panther, I will
tell in his own language as near as possible:
! "'About ten years ago, nears kin relol.
'1ect, was huntin' on top OF North Mount
sim, about twenty miles from here. l had
billed big buck an had jest finished skin
an hiln when I heard the s1uealin' Nv
drove Of wild hogs. You kin bet just
lining that buck up in tree quick as could,
stfor them critters is the orycnest things an
the msancst We ever saw. Why. il they get
mad they'll tackle any thing. Well, I he'd
'.as' got my deer safe when heerd them
eummin', a-squcalin' an a~gruntin'. he'd
TO hunt safo place myself fur there wuz
;no Csc a.shootin' one where there's maybe
forty. Ii I killed one I'd had to kill 'em ali;
'they'd never leave long as one OF lem wuz
olive. I thrcwed the gun strap over my
shoulder an took to good-sizeu tree ABOUT
swenty yards from where hung the deer.
"'The:n hogs put in an appearance just
as got into ~ big limb about fifteen feet
Ia. >ru1 fsfzn
hiy bears. and syuz Twenty-Five nv 'ena all
KelA. They sznelt the blood an tho deer,
rnossd up the leaves and ground with their
Roas noses, au' tore around generally until
they found the tres where the deer wuz
,Enng. Just about this time heard some
thing jumpin' from tree 10 tree on the lower
side OF TIC rizc, an purity soon I saw tho
Gong, slim body Of The biggest painter sver
Saw jump onto q limb wv - tree about seven
'sw eight yards from: the l:nab the deer wuz
kung ON. Then! hogs hadn't yet Ninded
the painter, au' they kept up sich racket
squcalin' an' gruntin' thct they hadn't
hreri him. Toe painter didn't sec tho hogs
Until ho struck tho last tree, when he syuz
ai1as,st over thc1n. lie jest laid himself out
Srll lca7th on tho limb an' watched them,
all lpe time slowly yyuviu' has bail back an
issrth au ehowirl' his teeth He Enowd he
ha,l TO git tibet meat willie it WIZ in the
geo or hey the fight Nv his life fur it If it
got to the ground
"sAfter q bit the painter seemed to make
sp hi: mind, fur he EeS his seet under him
s:a' seusatted. tell ye, stranger, tibet wuz
& purity jump. Tibet painter Jest sailed
through the air en- landed plump on tho
hnnb over tho deer. When the painter
struck the limb the hogs quit suuealin' end
49, al s.,<
ytng with the body NV the deey In tina center
above them. They began to foam at the
znonth an snap tneir tus.zs. What noise
khey made! Tbey svrz the maddest am
awfelest loo!zin' animals ever saw. 81
thia time tho painter wuz tryin' to haul the
dear rlp to ham with his paw, bus every
elmo &sn'd GIT the deer swung partly round
the s,news WITT. which t!s vuz fastened to
the li,rsss wud raaka il slip back. Purity
@aa1 chr painter aeeused to see the trouble,
fur Ss erahpcA Che buck with one paw
whi;o he reached down and b,t the deer
.oasc. There's where tho painter made the
s,iggeat mistake Of his life, for he couldn't
ho!a Ai1e deer when the tastcniE's wuz cut
eaid ia spite uv him it tore Loose from his
claws an fell 1iEhJ in the middle at the
drove Of hogs. They pumped on it and tore
it into pieces euiclzern kir. tell VS..
""i'he painter Ysas so II sld that he lost his
Judgment, o. us wouldn't hev done SIGH ss
foolish thing as he did, for ne gave oEe
enarl an 'vuz among them hogs liz l. second,
Knocking two ~ them over as tie landed.
Then there WIZ g fight The hogs quit tho
daer an went fur the painter. Now he wnz
down an then up. Over went hog ripped
wide open, here, while there smother got "a
wipe with that big paw which ,nade him SEQ
stars. But tao hogs want idle, by no
means. They ripped and tore tibet painter
sorc an att There WIZ q dozen long cuts
sn lila sides an' legs, an his body wuz COW
ascj with blood sich snar'ing, screamin',
saucaiin', ripp,li' an tearin' never did see.
In less than kin tell It, eleven Nv them
hogs w.u2 laid out an two or three mora vuz
hurt, but the painter wuz purity near
Knocked out, too. He wus layin' On his
back, an every time a hog got in reach of
his claws le w',,d give him a rip which wud
knock tibet hog out, at least Coz awhile.
Ono hog made a lunge at she painters head
aud got caught ky the throat by the painter,
Dot thet WIZ his last act, fur one NV
tbs bears drove his long tasks into tho
eaintcr's belly an literally ripped him
wide open from, one end to the other, an in
less than three seconds that painter Yuz
tore into pieces. The hogs took UP the
pieces, bones an all, en- crunched an
ground them .li nothin' could be seen Of
She a1i1nsal big enough to make Is gun-wad.
Tibet wuz battle, sure. There wuz about
fifteen dead hogs and six or eight tore an
gasned from snout to tail. don't believe
anglo one escaped sons injury. But tho
:ivin' ones, whether wounded or not, jist
kept !earin' round till they cleaned up all
that WIZ LETT OF the deer an painter.
"tI he'd set OIL that limb an' watched the
Hght until 1t wuz finished an never thought
Of my gun, an if he'd don't believe wud
hcy used it; but now that it WIZ over
knew Id hev to kill the rest ct the hogs or
stay in the tree oil night, so commenced
on them an killed the last one Of them.
After tho first shot tho living ones sur
rounded my tree aud tried to get at me, an
they staid all night there till I keeled over
tae last one. After he'd cleaned them out
! started for home, an for the first time in
long while got there without any meat"
To Koop a Room Pure.
Few persona know how easily room may
be kept in healthy condition. They keep
the windows shut and in short space Of