San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14


Tbole crisly scene. They, too, had
had their bouts with marauding
swine: and they were still young
enough to enjoy such clashes and to
pnrtake of them without danger.
The SOW. too blind with pain and
rage to know reinforccments were
coming to the aid of the half dead
hero, tore forward. The Mistress,
with both hands, sought to drag Lad
behind her. The maids screeched IN
plangent chorus.
Then. Just as the sow was launch
ing herself on the futilely swapping
Lad, she was stupidity aware that the
dog had somehow changed TO three
dogs. One of these three the Mistress
was still holding. The two others,
with excellent teamwork, were assall-
ing the SOW from opposite sides.
She came to sliding stop in her
charge. blinking in bewildered fury.
Bruce had caught her by the sore
left ear, and was keeping easily out
of her way. while he inflicted torture
thereon. Wolf, like a furry whirlwind,
! had stopped only long enough to slash
| her bleeding nose to the bone and
now was tearing away at her hind
| leg in an Industrious and very prom
| sing effort to hamstring her. In front,
Lad was still straining to break the
Mistress's loving hold, and to get at
| his pesterCd enemy.
This was more than the huge pork
| or had bargained for. Through alb
her murder-rage., shR had sense
| enough to know she was outnumbered
and beaten. She broke into a clumsy
gallop, heading homeward.
| Put Rrppn opI Wolf yvnulI OOt have
! il So Dclightedly they tore in to the
attack. Their slashing fangs and their
| keenly nipping front teeth were every
where. They were all over her.
In sudden panic, blinded by terror
| and pain the sow put her six hundred
pounds of unwicldly weight into the
! fastest motion she could summon. At
a sCrambling run, she set off, around
! the house. head down. bitten tail Rloft,
| the two dogs at her bleeding launches.
Dimly, she saw a big and black OBJ
| stacle loom up in her path. II was
| coming noisily toward her. But she
met it. hcadlong, throwing her vast
weight forward in an attempt to smash
| through it. At the same time Wolf
and Bruce left off marrying her flanks
and spraug aside.
Dugan had reached the garage IN
seen. There he had backed out the
! car, by hand. showing it into the open,
lest the motor-whirr give premature
announcement of his presence. Then,
rs he boarded the machine and reach
| ed for the self-Starter, all bedlam
! broke loose from somewhere in the
general direction of the house, fifty
| yards away.
Dugan. glancing up apprehensively,
beheld the first phases of the fight.
Forgetting the need of haste and OF
secrecy, he sat there, open-mouthed,
watching n scripmage which was be-
yond all his sporting experience and
which thrilled him as no prize fight
had ever done. MovelesS, wide-eyed,
he witnessed the battle.
But the arrival of the two other
dogs and the flight of the sow reused
him to n sense of the business which
had brought him thither. The Mis-
tress and the maids had no eyes or
ears for anything but the wounded
! Lad. Dugan knew he could in all
probability. drive to the main road I'M
noticed, if he should keep the house
between him and the women.
| He pressed the self-starter, threw
off the brake and put the car into mo-
ton. Then. as he struck the level
stretch of driveway, back of the house,
he stepped hard on the accelerator.
Here. for a few rods, was danger OF
recognition. and it behooved him to
make speed. He made it.
Forward bounded the car and struck
forty-mile gait. And around the
houses far corner, and straight to-
ward Dugan. came flying the SOW and
the two collies. The dogs, at sight OF
the onrushing car, sprang aside. The
SOW did not.
In the narrow roadway there was
no room for Dugan to turn out. Nor
did he care TO. Again and again he
| had run over dogs without harmins
his car or slackening its pace: And
of course it would be the same with
a pig. He stepped harder on the
| acCelerator.
ALI Dugaa came to his senses IN tbs
| hospital ward of the Paterson Jail. He
had not the faintest idea how he
! CHANGED TO be there. When they told
him the car had turned turtle and
! that he and a broken-necked pig had
been hauled out of the wreckage he
| asked in all honesty:
what car? What pig? Quit string
ing me, can't you? Which of NY legs
did you say is bust and which one is
just twisted? They both feel as bad
as each other. How'd I get here, any
| how? What happened me?'
| When the vet had worked over Lad
| for an hour and had patched him up
and had declared there was no doubt
at all about his getting well, Wolf and
| Bruce were brought in 10 see the in
valid. The mistress thought he might
He was not.
| be glad to see them.
! Indeed, after one scorntul look in
| their direction. Isaddie turned away
| from the visitors in cold disgust Also.
he was less demonsuative with the
Mistress than usual. Anyone could
see his abnOrmally sensitive feelings
were deeply hurt. And Vnyone, who
! knew Lad could tell why.
! He had borne the brUnt Of the fight.
| And at the last, these lesser dogs hsd
won the victory without his aid. Still
I worse. his beloved MiStreSs-for whom
| nc had so blithely staked his aged life
the Mistress had held him back BY
force from joining in the delirious last
! phases Of the fight. She had made
him stand tamely by. wbhe others tizF
! ished the grand work bS has begun.
| 1t was not fair. ASt Laddie II
everyone in sight kuc'F it was .rss
fair, and thaS he bad m intention Of
! being pGtted into a COX \"rHJr.
Still. when, BY and by, Re Mistress
| "a ill., fsgFfa him am