Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-04-27

"ho liSht III Inc hog pen With you and
Blue Boy | thought perhaps Ii 1t
Wasent too much trouble would you
send two complimentary tickets to this
TREND OF mine who lives at Miller.
South Dakota. He could take Mother
and see this picture when it gets there.
he D have much to go to shows on
Now | think that was nice sentiment
and the friend gets the passes. But LET
him go on with his letter: 81 am still
wondering why that Hampshire boar
dident get up in the pen when you
prodded him. | sort OF know Hamp-
shire hogs. Now You take a Duroc. or
Chester White. or a Poland China.
when they get fat they are just like
most human beings. plain downright
lazy, but not a Hampshire. They are
quick to be on their feet, and | have vet
TO see & Hampshire when he was prod
ded that dident get right up. Back In
South Dakota | had a big rangy Hamp-
shire Boar. He was the onriest thing
you ever see. He would jump a forty
Incl woven wire fence like a eayote,
and go miles to pick a fight with an
other boar. | used to 60 after him
horseback and with a blacksnake whip
and chase him home My mother is a
widow woman. has been since | was six
years old. She lives back In Dakota,
and this fellow | want You to send the
passes too Is her neighbor. He can
take her to the show. He Is a bachelor,
and is SO homely he says no one would
ever marry him. He farms mex to our
old place. He has done a lot for us.
He would come with his horses and
help me put In our crop, then hire me
to come and help him put In his. That
was away when | was six years old.
Hard times never did mean much to
him. He kept right on raising hogs,
Hampshire hogs by the way. He start
ed me up in the hog business by giving
me q few runts now and again. People
nsed to make a lot of fun of him be-
cause he listed his corn instead of
blowing the ground and planting 1t.
"You could always depend on him.
One time my hogs all got the cholera.
A couple OF fat one were already dead,
and the rest were awful sick. About
shutdown | went over to his house and
told him about 1t. He tied his team at
once to the fence, unhitched one horse
and rode back with me. took look
and said, Why that's cholerai' The
roads were terrible, but he rode twenty
miles bareback to the nearest town he
could find that had some cholera medi-
cine and a yaccinating syringe. come
back that night and helped me and
my mother by lantern light vaccinate
them hogs. 1T was several months be-
fore we had enough TO pay him for the
medicine. Several years later 1t was
him who told me. 4 can get you a pass
on a hog train going to the Coast You
might get something a little better out
there. Your kid brother is growing up
now and | will kinder help him out II
him and your mother need any help
"He took me to the train. and as |
went to leave | tried to thank him,
but he wonldent let me. Said. .Aw,
shucks, | will never be good for any
thing but a plug farmer Then he
pressed something into my hand. and
turned around and with a Well. so
longi' he had left In my hand two
twenty dollar bills.
II guess he knew | only had three
dollars with me. In the six years have
been gone | have never heard from