Show TOLD BY THE HERO HOW BRAVE HUNTER SUBDUED WILD BOAR bellous hearers made remarks about nature faking but read the story and judge the matter for yourself you over chased by a wild boar asked tho the man ir in tho mackintosh during a lull 1611 in tho the tion no nor you either said tho man with tile tho baggy kneed trousers ra it takes talt s a lot of 0 presence pres ot of mind to amargo from tho the incident with a whole skin I 1 can tell you accompanied by an entire absence of body ventured the man who had put a pair of largo large feet on tho table that remark Is neither now nor original I 1 seem to have heard beard it CO 60 or more times befaro I 1 remember when I 1 was hunting in southwestern arkansas in tho the tall fall of 89 going to toll it anyhow aro are you interrupted it tho the man with tho that bulbous nose nose 1 I am you can drop into a state of coma coina it you dont want to hear it I 1 had tramped for halt half a day in tho the woods without seeing anything worth shooting when I 1 hoard heard a loud crash in tile tho underbrush not a dozen yards away before I 1 could place mys myself elf in a suitable posture for defense I 1 no fence handy I 1 presume murmured the man behind the green goggles tile the chaparral parted I 1 think they call ball it chaparral out there but maybe its jungle and an enormous boar came rushing at mo me I 1 am not as it amed t to 0 say gentlemen that I 1 flung my rino rifle away flung filing Is tho the right word go 10 ahead 1 I turned and ran for my life but tho the east beast gained on me I 1 saw it was of no use stepping quickly aside just as aa tho infuriated animal was about to lanco mo me with ono one of its murderous tusks tusks Is correct much bluch be better ater than bushes tu shea hes interjected the man who was smoking tho the cheap cigar proceed 1 I leaped on the maddened creatures back grasped its ears with my hands and held on with tho of desperation I 1 havo have had many a rouga nough ride gentlemen but I 1 want to tell you that it ever you ride bareback on a wild boar remember the exl experience Jorl as long as you live alve even then however I 1 did not lose my presence of mind the savage I 1 brute tried to throw me of cout cour sc sebut but I 1 wrapped my logs legs around his bob blody dy tightened my grasp on his ears and stuck snorting horribly the boar darted ahead at frightful speed we tore through the forest a distance of perhaps half a mile I 1 was ble becoming conting exhausted suddenly wo we iassc passed d under the projecting limb of a tree loosing my hold on tile tho demoniac beast I 1 grasped the limb drow draw myself up and in a moment was butof out of danger dut but not an instant too soon scarcely had I 1 succeeded in into the tree when tile tho boar tu turned arned und camo came back finding me beyond his reach he swore dreadfully dont ja 3 language in mad f fury uror he charged tho the t J j itself gashing it with those terrible gerrib a tusks in his impotent rage leant leaning n g back against the trunk of the tree s six I 1 x feet above I am mm I 1 sat and watched ba him in until I 1 had recovered any breath and then go orz on with the bloodcurdling de details tallef doret spare us then drawing my revolver I 1 took deliberate aim and kill him 1 I try to kill him I 1 shot oft off one of his tusks slick and clean with a second shot I 1 took oft off his other tusk with a third shot I 1 clipped his tall off close up tip thoon then his proud spirit broke ho turned to flee jumping down from the tree tiree I 1 made afir him I 1 caught up with him I 1 kicked him I 1 chased that stid boar gentlemen giving him kick after kick until I 1 was tired after which I 1 let him go then I 1 went and found my gun again and resumed my hunting for fop larger game as if nothing had happened nothing was said for several minutes then u the man m an with the white spot in his mus mustache ticho casually observed that he could tol tolerate erato a plain j ordinary liar but buc he bo hated a nature faker whereupon he yawn arlly 1 I and moved an |