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Show k 4j Hunting Hog Keeps Larder Filled With Quail if - - - THE BACON Colonel TiicKer DibSDUi EfDUtslftisi Siwrttmaii, and Bajtsyi His Hunting Hog , in Vet ion By MiA Service PROQMORE, La., July 19. When 1 M'lail season rolls around. Colonel j Tucker Olbsofl shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsj' America's only hunting hog. And he comes home h his fame bag filled Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, is the equal of any bird dog In Louisiana as a hunter, says Gibson. He's rc-fused rc-fused .scores of large offers for the anlmsJi WhUt Betsy still wss n suckling, a hunter shot the got thai was mistng her Tho other pigs in the litter died and Betsy was near death when Gib- ' son found her and put her in his j pocket. Gibson had a bird dog that had lost I her puppies. He placed the little pig In the dog's caro. As the pig grew up. It's foster moth- , or took it on hunting expeditions. Gibson Gib-son was amazed to see the pig do its best to Imitate its foster-mother when game was discovered. Today when betsy comes near a cov-ay, cov-ay, her bristles stand straight up. She-lifts She-lifts her right foot an a bird dog does. ! Sho tries to straighten the kink in her ; tall. And quail dinners 1 in season) are ASver lacking at Gibson's home. |