HUNTED BY A PIG.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1087, 17 September 1883, Page 3

HUNTED BY A PIG.

A. Butcher put to ITligflit, The New Zealand Times of Thursday records a funny incident which occurred in Willis street the previous day :—A herd of swine, just landed from a Foxton boat, were being driven along the thoroughfare mentioned, by some of the employes of Messrs Woods, Crosbie and Co,, when one of the unclean animals, a huge brute, with the, contrariness for which the porcine breed is so remarkable, left the herd, and entered a vacant but verdant spot, being followed by one of the temporary swineherds, a youth who has achieved some considerable amount of success as an orator at the Salvation Army meetings. But ho amount of mild persuasian could induce the hog to join his companions, and, at length, maddened at the man’s efforts to turn him the right way; the ferocious animal rushed at the young butcher open-mouthed, and displayed such formidable tusks that the youth, considering discretion the better part of valour, fairly look to his heels, followed in hot haste by the pig. The poor fellow fairly shrieked with the agony of fear, but his pitiable pleadings fur cruelly unheeded . by his base comrades, who were themselves shrieking, but with laughter only. Around; that small paddock the man, followed by the pig close to his . heels, nimbly capered, and eventually finding the pace too hot for him, he clambered on to a fence, which Ke bestrode with tbe skill of an acrobat.. The living conglomerate of future rashers of bacon, enraged at losing his prey, reared himself on his hind-quarters, and actually bit pieces out of the fence., The brute then made off, and, rushing through the back gate of a yard, overturned a woman who was hanging out clothes. Her husband, hearing'her cries, fan to her rescue, wheivfielin his turn'wa^'attacked, and only succeeded in saving himSclf from probably severe injuries by killing the animal with a pick. The affair, as may well be supcaused .considerable excitement for the time, being in the locality; ; •: