The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07

tracks. Inc ude comes o. J, and the razor
DacK continues yanking ut marsh grass.
The water reaches his ST out. but he does
not move; he keeps one little black eve
out on the advancing ii, le and the other
one Is turned on the fec ting ground That
may seem to be a ply ical impossibilitv.
and 1t would be for an Y other thing but
florlda razor back log. He can do it
and does do it. Now yc III see what his long
snOut is for. The wat or will come mn and
be nearly over his Jack but his snout
has still several inch IS to be covered and
ne Keeps on yankin &. When the water
gets up TO his eyes he gives a disguised
submarine grunt hat makes the spray
ny, ana seeks dry and and wild oranges.
me FLORIDA IA zor-back is a natural
PAGER He never Z .ots or runs. He PAGES,
and when he let's himself out there isn't
any dog can catcl him. They have excit-
ing races betwe' IN razor backs down
there. saw a big hog, unframed, and
brought right rom eating four bushels
OF wlld oranges pace three straight mile
heats. and the s lowest one he made in 2:32!
believe II the - would train those hogs
they could get them down to two-minute
record.
And they an climb trees. don't mean
that they ca so out and shin up the
| trunk Of tn e "A hundred feet or more like
a bear. but tree that has branches, sa Y
ten feet frc an the ground. they can get
INTO easy. The first time l saw razor
back climb a tree / give you my word l
was astont shed. My hosts wife had big
gray cat which took especial delight in
teasing az nd worrying a particular razor
! back hog that used to come shopping
around Z ne place. One day this cat had
been esp ecially aggravatirig to the hog,
| and the hog got mad and turned on IL.
| The cat made for a tree in the yard, scoot-
ed up I. and perched defanty on the
lower L NIB, which was not less than ten
rect frC m theg round. Puss never had an
ldea II rat she wasn't entirely safe there
from he angry hog, but she didn't know
razor backs. The hog rushed at the tree,
gave "A jump at the foot of the tree at
least half way to the branch, and kept
right on going with his four feet on the
lrunl 4. The impetus of his rush and the
mou son he kept up carried him clear to the
bran ach, and he threw both forelegs over il
ana hung there. The cat was so surprised
ina she simply arched her back and spat
IN the hogs face. That was all. He gave
on o snap and had her by the neck lie
Or opped to the ground like a monkey, ami
y I less than half a minute the cat WAS
II Angling with whatever of wild oranges
and marsh grass roots the hog had en-
\ quilted.
They're pretty tough, too. these Florida
razor-backs. At least their hide is I was
out after alligators one day, apd, coming
/ home, j thought I'd knock over a razor
river bank, | hauled and blazed away
with my rifle. firing at the side of the
hog next to the woods. l heard the bull
let strike the hog, and the hog raised its
head and Looked up as if it thought IT
might have felt something, but wasns
sure. ] blimned away again, and heard
the bullet PUNK on the hog. but he didn't
seem to be a bit more disconnected than
he was before. Twas just going to shove
another bullet at him when a man came
out of the bushes, diagonaly off my
left. He had his hat in his hand, and was
looking at hole in the side of the crown
Hold on dab, sahr he exclaimed
Cad, sahi Pink yo' balls on the fab side
O the hog, sab, an let 'em slIive into the
rivah, sab! Cad, sab! Fust thing 80
know. sab, yo' injuh somebody, sahr
MY bullets had been carroming OF
that hogs hide like billiard balls from a
cushion, and one of them had passed
plunlb through the crown of the man
hat. Nobody owns the razor-backs. II
any one wants some pork he goes out
into the woods and kills the first one that
suits him. And this is the way he does
it, Having selecte his hog, he walks up
and places the mu zzle of his rifle close To
the inside of one of the hogs ears. Then
he fires square into the hogs head by
way of the ear. The razor-back lifts his
! head, cocks one; eye up as if he was
| bordering over something. May be he'll
stand that way half a minute. Then he'll
sid down on his launches, still maintain
ing the ponder'ng mood. After thinking
the matter over in that position for a
half minute OF. so, he seems to make up
his mind that something has happened
| and he quickly stretches himself out al
full length on the ground, gives a con-
tented grunt Or two, and dies He never
saueals or makes any fuss, but always
thinks the matter over carefully and calm
" before detFding that the best thing for
him to do under the circumstances is to
die People talk about razor-back hogs
but they don't know their subject if they
have never met the Florida razor-back. y