Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-12-12
ROCKY BAR. IDAHO SATURDAY. DECEMBER

we were subjected to. NC succeesied in
keeping IL secret. We all retired TO rest
about Il p. m, and every morning at day
break tap would come at my door, and,
dressing quickly, ! would find cup Of
coffee and Miss Jennie awaiting me down
stairs.
Peek a-boo was one of those long,
lnnk. hungry, scrub porkers that a drover
will tell YOU can run like the wind when
they like. We fed him once day ON a
bnshel of corn; he was placed in a crate
with sliding door Of bars, he saw the
corn dumped into trough, and was then
carted, hungry and squealing, 10 the 800
yard limit. Here the word ''gon was
shouted the door opened and piggy went
down the homestretch like n flash Of por-
cine lightning
Even the first day he went straight
along without an error; aud after spell
of twelve days he was q phenomenon; say
''go, open the door and away he would
start; commence pouring the corn into
the trough AS he canrc nearer, and he
spurted in the last nifty yards like pro-
fessional pedestrian. Then he was taken
back 10 his stye, and b, the time the
( household awoke to the duties and pleas
ures OF the day, Miss Jennie and would
be completing our toilets n little later
I than the rest.
1 Greatly TO the colonel's annoyance,
some one put n prominent advertisements
of the race into the papers, and friends
/ from far and near came round to see the
/ fun. House and grounds were thrown
open 10 the public, and the place was
thronged with eager people TO see Miss
Jennie's roam p0rker Peek -a-bOo meet the
colonel's bay mare Nerdant
Betting ran six to four on Peek-a-boo,
the colonel tried 20 laugh, but began, sud
denly, 10 fancy he WAS caught IN an awk-
wark trap of his own setting.
At q o'clock p. IN. the saddling bell rang
out, ladies began to group on the grand
stand specially erected for the occasion.
Again the bell, and Verdant came oui
looking like picture. She took shori
canter past the stand, and then turning
passed IL again going to the starting post
As she neared the post Peek-aboo wa
carried out in his pen, squealing Justify a.
usual, and Noticed the mare lay her ear
back aud kick somewhat viciously, as Il
the music did not suit her.
"Oh, hor' thought, "here is n new de
velopment"
The starter asked II we were ready.
looked up the course and saw the mar
with the CON in his arms at the trough
took hold of the trap door and nodded
the fiag fell, CO. | thundered Peek
a-hoo shot out with demoRiacal squeal
darted in among the mares legs. Yer
dant reared, nearly falling backward
turned round once, and shot Off like 4
rocket to find Peek-a-boo beat her ON he
merits, literally outrunning her, and wa
muching his corn contentedly when SIN
came up.
The colonel swore dreadfully; we OF
fered to repeat the wager, but he wa
} ''froze out" We won the 5000, an,
the colonel made an excuse, and left tn
Valley house two days later.
Peek-a-hoo hereafter il to live II
clover: he L. to feed on the fat OF the land
| and die "A natural death; his placid porcin
: temperament never to be troubled by fea
/ of butcher or shambles; for him the hor
; rible knife and scalding tub will hold n
terrors, he will sse his brothers led out I
! slaughter, and will slumber along 10
: good old age, with the promise, from hi
1 fair mistress, that when ne dies his hea
, will be stuffed and mounted, ms the fieetes
Y hog in Iowa.
Y Happy pigl
And Miss Jenniel
{ All! dear reader, It IL most prosai
4 ending. Miss Jennie was happily maj
! ried this spring, and my share OF th
l plumber went toward buying her wsddin
4 present She had noticed the strange dii
4 like Nerdant had to pigs one day whe
Z the mare was leaving the stable for exc
, else; and on that knowledge took up u
!, colunel's bombastic wager by challengiu
: him To run the mare In "a queer race. y
D The Journalist