Show HE didar CATCH ON W A MOVING STORY OF AN ATTEMPT TO CATCH A PIG there are manyas many things in this world it that hat look comp comparatively vely easy but which a trial demonstrates call forth a mans most serious tf fort we have always labored under the impression tuat a sixty pound pig could be grabbed by the hind leg and carried off with comparative ease by a man of ordinary size this crude ides idea however has loosened its grip on us dur during in 9 t the h e last few days L last bat thursday we ambled up to a cig pig like a member of the manhattan ball au club getting gett in on deck for a strike and reached for for his hind leg just then he had to take a step we did aid not expect him to make and the leg was not there any more se several more reaches were made but all fell short shore and what was the most surprising part of it the pig which was so absorbed in its root ing that he never looked up always happened to move just at the right time to be missed while regarding it as a coincidence tor for the animal did not even know we were there we stole up so quietly it was one of those annoy annoying ing coincidences that it is not easy to account for it if we were writing a treatise on coincidence we should give this a prominent place presently we got t the animal in a corner and in or der r to be sure fell down on it bodily Ag again ainone one of those internal infernal chance movements took place the pig took two steps to gather a potato and we fell flat on the place where the pig had just been then he be looked round tor for the first time and perceiving us as lying there grunted his astonishment ana and trotted away he was so astonished at seeing a man lying there on his stomach spitting gravel ravel out of his mouth that he weal went off and stuck his head in a barrel to give brain a rest then we slid up quietly and by a finely calculated cryptograms cryptogram ua us move ment snatched him by the hind leg th this is was probably what caused the barrel to rise up suddenly and hit us as on the nose the wrestling match seemed to begin at this point first we got a collar and elbow hold bold on the barrel and stood it OR OB its head bead then the abe pig got a grapevine lock and threw us over the barrel then we got a cornish grip on the animal and threw him and were in turn downed by the barrel then we got ohalf a half nelson graach roman rom n lock on the pigs nea neck but it got out with a half turn and somersault and grabbed us by the seat of the trousers claim of loul foal disallowed by female referee on the front ste steps on grounds that the pig pigs a tau tail had IL also been grabbed in the turn then T en the heretofore sig ig with a new style of wrestling heretofore unknown to us turned us a somersault it if a pig blindfolded by a barrel could play this sort of games it occurred to us that there was no telling what he be might not do with his head loose this idea and the feeling that he be might put his head out or get us as out of our head had A most demoralizing effect suddenly by a coup de main act we stood t he barrel on end with the pigs hindquarters in the air and thought we ha baa a the match won but tile the animal wiggled down ia ba the barrel and as we lowered it on its side to prevent his weight annoying him any further he made au an extraordinary movement he smashed out oat the barrel head and as we had him by the leg dragged us after him into the barrel when we let go to prevent the nalls nails in the barrel from tearing our new clothes we found ourselves in the barrel and the pig in a field about halt half a mile mil from efrom the house A women woman who had bad been sitting on the steps to act as a referee 9 gave th the e match to the pig carson nev appeal |