Show 10 OMEN politics ana and fishing tad W been discussed by the groby grou of good fellows a the hotel m lobby suddenly the missouri colonel who hau ileen een making a an n astonishing record as a Ils tenee said I 1 what you fellows have been saying reminds me we of a hoe hog my father owned when I 1 I 1 T was a youngster on tho the farm nothing had been said which could possibly remind the colonel of A 1 bog but the group was aware of df the fact thai that tle the colonel was always being reminded of something and anyway all wished to hear what he had to say the colonel straightened out in his coarr md began iliavi 1 I lave met many slick articles in my timeout time but that hog was the slickest thing I 1 have ever had to deal with the summer he reached the topnotch top notch of his lits record as the slipperiest erlest piece of tork in the mississippi valley there happened to be one of the most flourishing corn crops ever seen on our farro I 1 was detailed to keep stopped all cracks in the fence inclosing incao ring the crop the first two or three weeks after tho the corn cam was in the roasting ear stage I 1 kept everything out tight and then I 1 was forced to throw up the sponge to a hazel splitter shoat that hog suddenly formed the habit of going through the fence every time ume be he was hungry aad arid a good many limes times between times the colonel made the customary pause to observe the effect of the introduction tro A neckwear drummer who bad had just told the championship fish story said well inquiringly and the colonel proceeded what worried me was that I 1 could it olt find where the hog got through the fence I 1 walked roune and round it but not a crack laige jai ge enough to admit that porker could I 1 discover I 1 laid my troubles before the old man my everyday name for father but he lie help me in fact he said that the bog hog fly so far as he knew and that it either m nent ent through a crack or jumped over the top the latter of which I 1 believe atall at all because the fence was twelve rails high another week slipped by and the hazel splitter witter con V i linued hia his depredations in the corn why you watch him when he left the field I 1 interrupted one of the group watch banit exclaimed the colotel in disgust id like to have seen you watch that hog lie ile was too slick to be caught that way when I 1 went to run him out ut of the field he would sim aim ply bow hia back give a winf if and run away from the dog and after looking my eyes about out I 1 would go home to find him sleeping peacefully with the other hogs nearly a week went by and the case was ta becoming desperate the hog had eaten his head off to say nothing of the corn he had dest destroyed myed and wasted the last circus of tie season a was coming to town in a few days and the old man hinted that if I 1 cared to go I 1 would have to fasten that hog out of the field that was enough I 1 vowed I 1 would get even with the bog hog it I 1 had to follow him all day and sleep with him at night I 1 noticed after the old man had mentioned the circus that when I 1 got after him be he always ran in the diorec tion of a email small uncultivated lot took up a section of one end of the field where in win tor ter the fodder was bricked I 1 concluded that he must have bis his entrance and exit there although I 1 had gone along that part of the fence a dozen times bright and early one morning I 1 hid bid where I 1 could see the fence in either direction for a hundred yards along tue lot about the time the dew was all dried up I 1 saw mr hazel splitter coming up the path on a trot so hungry for green corn vim that he was as squealing to himself when ho he was about twenty yards from me he turned into a corner where the fence was built over a large hollow log 1 I thought fly eyes would fall out of my head when I 1 saw that bog hog crawl through tha th log into the field As soon aa as I 1 could recover my breath I 1 went after the brute he lie disappeared md L rid 0 course went out through th the e log while I 1 was taking the fenced dk to remove the log the thought struck me that I 1 should in some way get even with the hog instead 0 war tho the aaa I 1 turned it around still 11 living 2 v 1 ng it the corner so both ends would le on the outside of the field II 11 theo then th e rebuilt t the fence ilene retired to a a secluded spot to awit aam el it was not long until at th tb came trotting bach back and h 04 the coast was clear he seeing that to the jog log plied piled in went and str liht through when he ether other end he be paused with emerged at t the k and toik toi k minute notice a dazed aw axa it ot of hit hi roun soundings dings seeing that he agn vias a far from where ho he started he be tot to the other end returned return di a and ad crawled throats aga U another dazed and P pained al pres slon and he crawled ex d through again in a few minutes he gli vaa was I 1 triv ra T elleg in a circuit hud squealing fully As fast as he would pit through only to find himself crl cl still the outside ho he on again would cra trawl through t L laughed myself almost into spasm and then began tu a count th t trips through the nole hole at the forty first count the hazel sPlitter was sud bud denly seized with an idea he reflected teLl a moment and then reverie reversed th tha act action 1 on era crawling wa n 9 t through h 11 f from 10 in the ih other end devent he vent that route thirty seven ti tas 3 by ac c hatai lie bat worn the hair oc ot his back and fear eu ing that he boug keep it up as as he bad had any back bone left I 1 CUB came other end he ile went vent that route thirty seven times by actual count lie ija lal bad worn wom the hair on oft bis his back and fear 1 ing that he would keep it up aj as long as he bad had any backbone left I 1 came from my biding hiding place and Inter intervener veDer in response to several 1 here from the group the colonel said well I 1 went ment to the circus |