The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-11
Views and Interviews.

We were discussing names.I The talk
began by somebody making the fool re-
mark that he'd never seen Il fellow
who parted his name in the middle that
was worth a cuss" Then the conversa-
ton yeered round to long names. and
from that ii shifted TO peculiar names.
From there it was but a step 10 foolish
names When we got there Mr.. Charles
II. Johnson said:
III tell You the most foolish name |
ever heard. but the fond parent who
gave it took no such view OF the mat
ter. 1t was in South Carolina, several
years ago One morning an old negro
came up to the house of his former mas
ter smiling and rubbing his hands. There
was no need asking the cause. for every
body knew of the new arrival at the lit
tie cabin over in the field. But there
Yves one thing they didn't know, So the
lady Of the house asked:
We'll Urcle Ben, what did YOU name
the boy
Seapo missis' replied Ben. smiling
broadly and bowling.
What
''Scapo.'
why Ben where in the world did
you get such an outlandish name?'
"Outlandish. niSSis. why don't YOU
member dat hymn what says Wen
view de lam Scape %"
OF course she remembered il. and the
boys name was never changed.
Here is something new under the sun
hogs that hunt rabbits like a dog The
story is told 10y Mr.. y. Il. Stronach
ary goods merchant of this city, and he
vouches for its truth
Il went out to thc farm of my friend
Nat Tomlinson. in st. Mary's township,
the other day said Mr.. Stronach a.
he sat in the mayors office yesterday
morning, waiting for the assembling Of
the Bryan committee. lie had promis-
cd to give me big rabbit hunt and
he did. Oh we caught Il dozen or two,
and il seems 10 me | walked hundred
or two miles while we were al it. And
then such dinner. Seems To me !
never ate one that was so good. and
I'm certain | haven't eaten 80 much nj
Il meal since ! came out OF the war But
that ; another story and not the one
started ogt 10 tell You.
When we started out on the hunt
noticed three hogs that seemed To be
pets about the house. following us. At
first | thought nothing OF il. but soon
we Jumped a rabbit anu away went
the HOUNDS and with them those three
hogs. They kept right along with the
dogs. too. And still | fought nothing
SPECIAL Of IL but soon noticed that
the hogs We're as much in the hunt as
the dogs, so | began 10 make inquiries
and l found that these hogs always
joined in these hunts.
They were. as / have said. pets about
the house, and when very small pigs
they began to follow Mr.. Tomlinson
about the farm along with his dogs. and
in that way they learned to 30 rabbit
hunting. There are three Of them.
large brown one. a black one and
spotted one. They are Il cross between
the Berkshire and the RaZor-back. From
the Berkshire they get weight and from
the Razor-back they inherit speed. They
are net much on the catch but for
jumping rabbits they beat a dog all
hollow; and on the chase they are no
slohs. for they can run Ike dcers.
THE brown hog is the leader He
goes slightly in front of the other two,
and hunts best with shuck in his
mouth. He seems to have learned tirrt
the noise made by this is effective in
starting mp the game. If we came to
a thickct he would 20 i'll with his shllck
knocking it nosily. against everything in
reach; when about the centre of the
thicket he and his companions would
utter one or two 'hoohs and if there
was a rabbit hiding there you might de-
relsd on his coming out in a hurry
These hogs. Mr. Stronach says. hunt
by sight and not by smell"
lt was suggested that the hogs be
brought here to the next Fair and a
rabbit turned loose on the grounds en-
closed by the race track. but Mr.. Strou-
ach doesn't think they'd hunt well there
or anywhere else. he added, except on
the farm where they We're raised.