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Show I THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH ' il ADVENTURERS CLUB OUR COMIC SECTION HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! i Snoopie Monster From the Swamps By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Hello everybody: sir, if I seem to be continually harping on the fact that adventures are things you meet up with most frequently at can home, you put it down to the fact that I am continually being reminded of it. Just the other day, while looking through a sheaf of letters I 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 youd only expect to rim 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 to stage in their gladiatorial arenas. The woman is Lottie Hawco Mrs. John Hawco, of New York city. And the animal she fought with was a wild boar. Ill bet a lot of people including me didnt know there were wild boars in this country. But there are, as any South Carolina farmer can tell you. How they got here is an interesting story. Yon see, the ordinary barnyard breed of pig is nothing in the world bat a descendant of the wild boars yon read about in tales e of Merrie England. Those boars were tamed and fattened and domesticated until, over the space of six or eight hundred years they became the fat, lazy, gluttonous animals you see in hog pens the country over. old-tim- 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 marshes and forests of old England in the days of Robin Hood. There are plenty of those backsliding 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. 1RM The marse-- LORE A T H Lotties Mother. And that brings us to Lottie Howco 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 and herding them d farm wagon. They had just returned home alive into a big to a man with six or seven boars big, vicious fellows, waist-hig-h 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 one by one and cautiously prodding them into the pen. Lottie, her mother and sister were standing near by, watching the proceedings and then suddenly a terrible thing happened. E R iWATis E THAT A D Attack by a Savage Boar. Osborne e wwtr even move. Sister Inez, paralyzed with fright, clapped her hands over her ears and began to scream. Lottie herself was numb with terror, and for precious seconds seconds that seemed like a lifetime she stood rooted to the spot. All the rest of the men were on the other side of the pen, or on the wagon, too far away to reach the spot in time to do any good. Then, all of a sudden, Lottie came to life. She cant explain what happened, but it seemed as if a spring inside her had suddenly 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 He Fled. The boar could have killed Lottie with one thrust of its sharp, pointed tusk. Lotties mother had been saved from death thus far only by her long skirts and thick clothing. But taken by surprise, the boar couldnt 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 pf fury. It didnt seem one whit afraid of the boar. And an animal will often reason that if you are not afraid of him, then he must have good cause to be afraid of you. This one did just that. Snarling and grunting, he turned to flee from this inexplicable new attack. He got about three steps, and then he found himself tangled up in the ropes of the men who, 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 porch of the farm house with hef mother, looking over herself for injuries. She doesnt even remember helping her mother to the porch, and to this day she cant figure out how she came out of that fight without a scratch on her ' body. WNU Service. F O R C E Copyright. Largest Book Sale in History The largest book sale in history took place in 1920, when the United States government purchased the Vollbehr collection of 3,000 century printed books ' for Most famous of these $1,500,000. books is the Gutenberg Bible. pre-Six-tee- Survive Without Breathing Seals, beavers and muskrats, which can withstand submersion for about five times as long as land mammals, reveal that their ability to survive without breathing is due to insensitivity of their respiratory adjustments to carbon dioxide. By Ted Olcaghlin a WNU Tost The Point-Trt- EY CATeR, To well (jpoOMED MEN, MEM MHO ARE TOST "THAT AND THEY KEEP THEM H high-side- The men had unloosed 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 foaming at the mouth. ' It headed straight for Lotties mother, who was standing nearest the pen, and before she could turn to run, it was on her throwing her in a heap to the ground, biting at her savagely. It was the most terrible sight Lottie ever beheld in her life. Charlie, the foreman, stood with his mouth agape, too surprised for a moment to m The Mf? (jROQMfe ACK SoB To ,LWAYS RAToRlUM ToN So Jg -- maybe F E The Boar Viciously Attacked AROUND VER erupt WAY . HECK.1 I SAW PAN HANDLER IN THERE ONE A DAY they Brr BU-T- 4 And et 1RIMM&D I KNOW THAT PLACE Yol CANT SET Ip YOU NEED A SHAVE |