Show fag adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 monster F from aront the by FLOYD FLO YD GIBBONS famous headline hunter ELLO EVERYBODY HELLO well sir if I 1 seem to be continually harping on the fact that adventures are things you meet up with most frequently at home you can put it down to the fact that I 1 am continually being reminded of it just the other day while looking through a sheaf of letters I 1 came to a story by a woman who had an adventure on a farm well of course theres nothing unusual in that the funny part of it was that the farm was in this country and the adventure was of a sort only expect to run into in the jungles of africa or south america or to read about in some account of the grim battles between men and animals that the ancient romans used I 1 to stage in their gladiatorial arenas the woman is lottle lottie hawco mrs john hawco of new york city and the animal she fought with was a wild boar IU ill bet a lot of people including me know there were wild boars baars in this country but there are as ani any south carolina farmer can tell you I low ilow they got here is an interesting story you yon see the ordinary barnyard breed of pig is nothing in m the world but a descendant ot of the wild boars baars you read about in tales of old time fl lerrie england those boars baars were tamed and fattened and domesticated until over the space ot of six or eight hundred years they became the fat lazy gluttonous animals you see in hog pens the country over how pigs get wild and dangerous but a pig will stay fat and tame and lazy only so long as hes kept in captivity and stuffed with chop suey from that well known galvanized iron can out on the back porch once he gets loose and goes back to the woods again and has to rustle for his own food well then he gets thin and tough and rangy his tusks grow out and in a generation or two he becomes a boar again just as wild and as dangerous an animal as ever he was when he roamed the marchesand marshe sand forests of old england in the days of robin hood there are plenty of those backsliding back sliding wild hogs in the back country of south carolina and the farmers hunt them down and round them up because they destroy the nests of the wild turkeys in the neighborhood g S the boar viciously attacked latties Lot ties mother and that brings us to lottie roco who on february 16 1931 was visiting with her mother and her sister inez on a farm near osborn S C where a wild boar hunt was in progress A bunch of men from the neighborhood had been out all day combing the marshes with packs of dogs roping boars baars and herding them alive into a big high sided farm wagon they had just returned home with six or seven boars baars big vicious fellows waist high to a man and weighing three or four hundred pounds animals that could break a mans leg with their huge crunching jaws and which frequently did disembowel the fierce dogs that hunted them with one sweeping blow of their long protruding tusks the men backed the wagon up to a strong enclosure and were untying the boars baars one by one and cautiously prodding them into the pen lottie her mother and sister viere nere standing near by watching the proceedings and then suddenly a terrible thing happened attack by a savage boar the men had un loosed the largest boar and were prodding it toward the pen when it turned squeezed between the wagon and the enclosure and rushed out into the open gnashing its great teeth and flamin foaming 9 at the mouth it headed straight for latties Lot ties mother who w was as standing nearest the pen and before she could turn to run it was on her throwing throwing 9 her in a heap to the ground biting at her savagely it was the most terrible sight lottie ever beheld in her life char charlie I 1 e the foreman stood with ids his mouth agape too surprised for a mome moment nt to even move sister inez paralyzed with fright clapped her hands over her ears and began to scream cream lottie herself was numb with terror and for precious seconds seconds that seemed like ile a lifetime she stood rooted to the spot AU all the rest of the men were on the other side of t the he pen or on the wagon too far away to reach the spot in time to do any goo good d then all of a sudden lottie lotti came to life she cant explain what happened but it seemed as if a spring inside her had sud denly been released she sprang forward threw herself on the snarling screaming rolling jumble of woman and beast singled out the boar and began beating and mauling and scratching it with insane frenzy surprised him so ile he fled the boar could have killed lottie with one thrust of its sharp pointed tusk Lot lottie latties ties s mother had been saved from death thus far only by her long skirts and thick clothing but taken by surprise the boar quite figure out this wild new menace that came beating and kicking at his flanks tearing and scratching at his eyes it was a thing of fu fury ry it seem one whit afraid of the boar and an animal will of often te n reason that if you are not afraid of him then he must have good cause to be afraid of you this one did just st that snarling and grunting he turned to flee f from rom this inexplicable new attack he got about three steps and then he found himself tangled up in the ropes of the men wh who 0 by this time had come around from the other side of the pen to deal with him the next thing lottie knew she was back on the p porch of the farm house with her mother looking over herself for injuries she even remember helping her mother to the porch and to this day she ca can nt t figure out how she body came out of that fight without a scratch on her copyright service |