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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Mat 34, 1883. 



le, if possible, and have the wound sewed up. It 

 iess.-i.rv ft it me to walk back, ill order to he better at ile 



ho |iiek niv ii-:iv, ae well as bo be ready tonnhiteh hev when 



ile ■ l.ri.o-.. would enteli hold of the lin iidkerehie r'. 1 struck 

 for the nearest route to the bayou, in order to gel to the road 

 on the opposite side. After rn.anv slops to unhitch, put back 



' '■' ■■' .hues lo ear-TV her nude] inr arm, I suc- 



■ led in arriving at the bayou. I" could find no log to take 



her over, aud the water was nearly up to mv neck and run- 

 ning very rapidly. 1 forded it with mv mule, and coaxed 



tlOTi When ! i ju about "half way acrossshe 

 had drifted below where I crossed, and to erown mv nnsfor- 



ot tangled in a grapevine. There v 

 it, but Dither to let her drown or 1 ideh ayi e)i and unfasten 



"I ■ Struggles to get loose the handkerchief became 



her entrails came out, an. 1 the; Lip in the 



vine. The water was fTeejang COld, 1 was nearlv frozen be- 



I ■ i i i the bank, and then I was over a mile from 



borne. 1 had stripped to wade in to get her out. because I 

 I nub ft'eeze were 1 to start home with 

 ' ■ '; < lull of water. To increase tin perplex- 

 ities I had lost the handkerchief and had nothing to hind the 

 Wouud but u frozen halter rein, 1 could not secure the en- 

 i. Hi- from falling mil u ' ' . i L j.intr them over 



the, now. Two hours must have passed before 1 finally got 

 tter to the gate. As if was only a quarter of a mile to the 

 house, and the snow trampled down in the road. 1 put her on 

 the inside and left her, supposing she would no to the house, 

 and I km w mv wife would hav her attended to. The blood 

 undoes zing from the wound on the mule's leg, and as I 



could faintlv hear the cry of the pack of hounds, a- it 1 hev 

 lead cone- i o a hav. I dashed oil* to be in at the "death" and bo 

 sttvomj I - it was not more than a mile to where the 

 Dg. Soon 1 was there, and found Sam and the 

 li.de. endeavoriui to -el a shot at the boar that had 



taken rei u . in a large, hollow cypress log, He informed me 



h- hoars, when he made the shot where 



they had bedded and this one dashed away at the report of 



i ' ... ,,i in front of the log. so that he could not 



shot a- it. and that he was waiting" for me to come up to 



ch .-t.erm.mi v. h.-.- t,, do. " He hail become so excited that it 



had ool -.sted to him the proper plan was to make a 



Creedman take a saddle blanket, and, walking down the lop:. 



hold it with a stii k in front of the hollow, while neahonjd 



i. i i. one sideand shootassoon as theboar should 



■ the blanket. 

 This an ingemenl was quickly made. A long pole was cut, 

 the blanket fastened to one end, and the freedman with bis 

 I'M hand and the pole in the right, walked 

 along the log until he got near enough to the mouth of tie- 

 hollow to extend the pole and wave the blanket before it. At 

 first the boar paid no atp-mion to it, but some of the dogs. 

 approaching too near, excited his rage and ho made a I ash 

 forward to attack I he in. The blanket was dashed aside, the 

 body was exposed, the sharp report oi Sam's ride was heard 

 above tie- roar of the dogs, and forward sped the enraged 

 animal. A huge cur- that, belonged to one of the Freedmen 

 I his course. It was but an instant— a gleam of ivory 

 Hashed, a slight upward toss of the head, and the poor dog 

 ide with a terrible rent from the flank to the 



shoulder Hue I i; was so great that not a sound of pain 



was heard as his life went out and all the bowels gushed forth 



\iitb the crimson l ide dyeing the snow. It was a horrid, sick- 



; si lit thai made ne- shudder, and the freedman, his 



i. a madman l,,r lie- lime being. One of my best 



, id- w.i- the Bert object he encountered. The hound 



ear The great, wide mouth of the beast seized 



t his neck and crushed him to the ground. Then came 



i. the head The dog was thrown up several feet in the 

 id came down on his back stone dead, his belly ripped 

 and all the entrails exposed. This infuriated me. I was 



... -nan mule on , side of the course I expected the 



Should leave the h,, How, with the in- 



i> ,,i making a broadside shot should Bam fail to kill 

 him. Tie- hounds prevented me from Bhooting fur fear I 

 i ! ■ them, and now, when I witnessed the 



hound, I spurred my mule to charge 

 a opportunity to shoot hint in the back. 

 aw | be movement, and instantly met it with a counter- 

 That would h.-iv e been the last of the mule, and more 

 i.ah of us. Coras he got within some 

 - me the cap snapped on the right nipple of my 

 Westlev Richards, and he would have certainly struck 

 bhemul . I having no left hand to turn the mule loone side and 

 I ii pass by. Al that fearful instant some of the dogs 

 .er.: d his hams, and le whirled upon them; the mule, being 



in full - id, passed so near th- left, side of the boar thai I 



i I .vclv lowered the mu/xle of tie- '.-nil ,-oel fired the left 



[, most fortunately breaking his spine and stopping his 



Tie node hail barerj passed beyond his head when 



Sam's revolver and the freedman's Musket cracked at the 



Se.-in.' nn danger, both had rush -d ■ 



i reached the boar as he fell from my shot 

 Tin- pistol bad passed through his heart, and t he freedman's 

 musket, being rammed against hie eat, blew the top Of his 

 in ih. ball from Barn's rifle had struck himtoo-far 

 behind the shoulder to produce instant death, though It was 

 a morLu'. wound, From the month or the hollow 

 to the spot where t he boar fell was not forty rods. The whole 

 thing was over so quickly that. 1 did not realize the great 

 danger I had run until my auger had cooled and I had dis- 

 mount!.- 1 i. .examine the savage beast, lb.- was marked in 

 th.- Ear-marks of my partner, Cdl, M.. i.. Bell, who subse- 

 quently informed nn- In- was two years old before the war, 

 and life more having intervened, his age was seven years. 



I Lover four hundred pounds. I made a mentil note 



that it should be lie last wilfl leu thai I would charge, and 



never to hunt another on a mule. Had 1 ridden my war 



pony, Jeandan, I should have incurred but Utile risk, aa he 



n bya pressure of the knee as readily as most 



do by tie-aus. .f the curb bit. 



The boar was loo large to be carried on a mule. Sam and a 



-are of it. until a wagon could be 



mil to haul it lean.-, not mudi over;i , mile distant. The other 



-el-- -ei In diWiiig He hog. ' Win ■, f got to 

 ■ ml asked my wife v. 

 seen Venn •' Replying 'no," I informed her of the mishap, 

 anSstvmmoning my foreman, sent him to the gate where 1 



er. with instructions to bring her home very can ■ 



fully wer- ■- ■ :. ■•■■ .1 ■-, I Tin- I loi: expected and I was 

 most a- 1- ..Mv a-oeii-in d to see him bringing her in hisurms 



alive, I made I tike i,.-. ,-n; .-a. I t wash them carol Tub v 



and tend ■ : . -.-I then put them bat k and sew L> 

 wound, i'ie- ue.-i astonishing part of the whole thing was 

 thatinthre, we.-k-- V. m,s was w. II. and from having been 

 ii running hogs ami extremely shy 

 of tin-in. she became the best hog dog I ever saw. and would 

 in preference to any othi me. I knew 



,i .,, bo | • 1 1 . -- •. 1 1 ■. a bunch of wild hogs „ ivt 

 t.iglit. and I fo ml her the next day baying them iu their bed. 

 i i I if this boar in the lower jaw curled out some five 



the mouth The orifice of Venue's wound was 



about four mches or more in Length, and uirectlj under lie- 



I, i M i,-r belly, [have a- ■'■■■ -r P an able to account for 



I , n ,1-f above tie- kie- . and tie- wound 



i ■ ■on... both al th- - afl so sli . ie for such a 



i After dinner I accompanied Sam to get the 



hog he killed i-.-irij in the morning. Itwonld have been too 



■■•:- an iiud-rlal.oej to ha lal one, 



u went with us for tin purpose of -skin- 

 n ... ii.-iei; was killed, and then packed the meat home. 

 , • I in- j,!.- .-e s.-on discovered two extraordinary ' 



large gray eagles perched on the top of a lofty eottonwood. 



lie made an excellent, shot at one, killing it over a hundred 

 :uid fifty yards with his small siptirrel rifle. The mate flew 

 otf. but before, we got through skinning the hog, if returned 

 to the same tree, and he was so fortunate as tri be equally 

 .successful in UiliciL i Id. ...,.■ 



I l-a-' : : ■■! |- -on- an cask- in the Western country, most 

 of them of the bald, eagle species, thai are to be fiun. fri 

 quentme the great Lakes Of the Mississippi and Arkansas 

 nv, rh. -inns, but. I have never seen such large eagles as those 

 two. in p. in portion of the United States. It is a r.u- is r 

 renee at the present time to meet with a gray eagle in 



This hog proved to be the fattest of the two, though not 

 near so large as the last one we killed. On our return home, 

 as we were crossing the havou, Lhe dogs flushed a flock of 



turkeys. They Hew iu the direction of the cypres- l,r , a .1 



were followed by Sam and several of the freedmen f being 

 too tired to hunt them. It was quite lab- in the night when 

 Sam (jot home. He had succeeded in In gins three fat h-tis 

 aud, best, of all. he reported having found the -ign- . I ■ ■ ■ 



' A grand 



rowed from those olanlaiions lying be 

 town of Pine Bluff. 



At that time, no freedman regarded hi 

 owned a dog and some kind of lir-.u in-. 



AUt 



itld I 



lie te 



l-xt skeleh. 

 ■:l\ 



al.e [nto 



consideration the severity of the w her. the. wound, the 



entrails being dragged over the snow for hundreds of yards, 

 torn bv the briars, that several feel of them in Length were 

 exposed at a time, and that some six hours had elapsed before 

 being cared for. we must admit it was an instance of remark- 

 able tenacity of life. This sketch is literally true— no draft 

 drawn on the bank of fancy. 

 Kftrora, La. 



JOHNNY AND THE AXE. 



Editor Forrsi uml Stream: 



Having read with some interest, numerous anecdotes of the 

 sagacity of dogs under various circumstances, I wish to con- 

 tribute one presenting our canine companion iu a "role" some- 

 what different from anytlnng I remember ever to have seen 

 published. 



An old gentleman now dead, one of the pioneers of this part 

 of the State, used often lo relate the occurrence. On corn- 

 unsettled portion of the country some seventy years ago. he 

 obtained a young, active and remarkably intelligent dog. 



a great pet both for him ami his young wife, i i't vanousanec- 

 dotcs conccmiug his doings aud misdoings. I care to recall only 

 the following: 



One summer day when the rigorous young farmer was 

 plowing "over in the back lot," accompanied as usual bv the 

 dog • .Johnny . who watched the progress of matters chiefly with 

 reference to casual mice and chipmunks which might lie scut 



scurrying out from under upturned stumps or broken r . B 



number of cattle, broke through the fence mto an adjoining 

 hold., f corn. 



Hastily leaving the team in the furrow, the farmer assisted 

 by the dog. drove ba.-k the cattle, and after laying up tie- dis- 

 placed rails of the snake fence, set the stakes" in "position to 

 support the "riders." and attempted to drive them Urmlj into 

 the ground, using a part of a broken rail as a "maul . " 



and after some time spent iu this unsatisfactory manner, my 

 informant stood contemplating th- unfinished 

 noticing the dog looking on watching every movement with 

 his keen, intelligent eyes. "1 wondered if" he knew what I 

 wanted.' - With a wave of the arm toward the house. 

 "Johnnv, go bring me an axe. The axe. Do you understand 

 it? The" axe." Just an instant motionless, with ears erect and 

 eyes that almost spoke; then like a rocket away went Johnny 

 across thG Held and over the hill, out of sight. 



The fanner returned to his plow lo await the event, but 7iot 

 for some time did Johnny make Ins appearance, and then 

 with drooping tail and downcast look, stole silently to his 

 master's heel. 



■•Ah. you rascal: You didn't bring the axe, did you, you 

 cood-for-m, thing fellow:" 



Again the dog started toward the house, but not with I he 



The old gentleman used to say, "I worked away for a spell. 



started over the hill toward (he distant farm house. 



Turning aside from the direct route for a drink from a 

 favorite spring, he again approached the path where it led 

 through a stumpy mowing held, now knee-high with rank- 



a commotion and hearing a scuffling in the grass, 

 he stole up soiih . and there was lhe faithful dog. forty rods 

 or so from the house, tugging a hickory beetle, with heavy 



stli 



•-.111 



DUldTc 



that method 



eldv thing, an 

 tipped to or 



Th 



ward, haul it after him along the path for some Ir 

 in this manner, the battered comers of the beetle forming 

 books to I itch in the tangled grass, requiring at tone- his 

 whole strength to break it loose. Alter some minutesot 

 such effort he would rest a bit, and looking up tothetopof 

 the hill with a wistful Whimper, buckle to it again as before. 

 This was too much. "Whafsthe matter. Johnny: I'll see 

 about this business." The farmer, shouldering the beetle, 

 started down the path toward the house preceded by the dog. 

 overjoyed that even his unavailing efforts were appreciated. 

 Arrived at the woodshed there was Johnny growling and tug- 

 ging with might and main it the axe stuck Mrmly in the end 

 of a large block of w 1. from which all his offo, is had failed 



turned lhe block from Bide to side; and the axe-hclv,- from 

 end to end was scratched and scored by his teeth; and when 

 all else failed, the beetle was loos;', and he did the best he 

 could to carry that. The old gentleman used to say. "Well I 

 iu.-t sat down mi that block and laugned till 1 was tired, then 

 Igotabitof glass and went to scrapmgthe axe-helve, that 

 dog down on tin chips with his no-e between his paws looking 

 at 'me as if to saw '\Vell.what could a dog do;' and now all 

 I've got to sav is, if that dog didn't, have reason, what did he 



have:'' 



That old gentleman was my father, aud whatever your 

 . ., think of the stoi . . tie m inner and times of its 

 relation wulevermakeu tmvarnished truth tome. From 

 in. description oi the dog, Johnny, 1 amsatisnedh 

 been nearly, pr quite a pure English shepherd, though 1 pre- 

 sume at that lime the breed was unknown in this p 

 having been, if I remember •correctly the word- of my lather, 

 obtained from a passing drover. 



It may well be believed that Johnny was a favorite with 

 the family, but proving too faithful a guardian of his master's 

 interests, a dose of poison by some aggrieved trespasser ter- 

 minated his life. 



Now. please don't teU " Nessmuk," or any of those fellows, 

 where I live or I'll get in a ■■muss," but I like a good do- and 

 he is more company for me than lots of the things 1 toaBng 

 about with only two legs and no tail. I guess I haven't , ,wned a 

 do - in ten years, but once i„ a great while when 

 time -out, just cut loose from chains and scraps, and whoever 

 gets the game, I can at, least have all the. dogs in the crew that 

 ate worth haying— owners or no owners. 



The old gentleman alwae, .-; inom-ned the loss of his favorite. 

 and could never liud another ipiite up lo his standard, and 

 during the latter twenty j ei rs of his life, though I took quite 

 a ileal of pains in that direction, more to please him than my- 

 self, he would never allow a puppy within reach of his cane. 

 It was always, "Get out, sir, you're no such a dos as Johnny 

 was." Pact. Devebeux. 



THE EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 



I?OLLOWINC4 are the constitution, by-laws and running 

 rules of the Eastern Field Trials Club, with all amend- 

 ments passed by club to January i. 1883; 



CONSTITUTION. 



NAME. 



I. This association shall be called "The Eastern Field Tflals 

 Club." 



OBJECT. 



3, The Eastern Field Trials Club is establislied with a view 

 to improving the breed of spoiling dogs, especially to test 

 their field qualities, to increase the interest fa legitimate sport 

 with dog and gun, and for tlie purpose of holding field Trials 

 for dog3. 



MANAflKMl.NT. 



3. The government aud management of the Club shall be. 

 confined to a Board of twelve. 02) Governors. 



4. The Board of Governors shall be elected yearly at the an- 

 nual meeting Of t he Club and shall hold office "for oiie year and 

 until their successors are elected. 



5. A quorum of the Board of Governors shall consist of 

 seven (7). 



II. The Board of Governors shall elect annually from its 

 members a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer and a 

 Secretary, and such committees as they shall deem neces- 

 sary. Th" dui ics of these committees shall be defined by the 

 Board. 



7. Such officers, or any of them, and the committees or 

 members thereof, mav. at any time, for violation of duty, 

 be removed by the Board of" Governors, and thet 



8. The Board of Governors shall cat 



llhe 



2 to be prepared anuu- 

 lcial Condition of the 

 ores during the current 

 cr matters of general 

 II be presented to the 

 ear shall terminate on 



tiles shall be given by the 



interest to the Club, which 

 club at its annual meetimr. 

 the second Tuesday of Jam 

 !l The interpretation of 

 Board of Governors. 



10. The Board of Governors may, from time to fiinc nia.e 

 regulations in accordance with the powers herein given, or on 

 matters herein provided for. 



11. The number of members of the Club shall not exceed 

 100, but the members of the Club shall have power at a gen- 

 eral meeting, by a majority vote, to increase the number of 

 members to any extent they deem bf st. 



ADMISSION. 



u. Bach candidate for membership shall be proposed and 



seconded by two members of the Club. The name, profession 



ice of the candidate shall be forwarded by the 



Secretary, at least two weeks before the balloting, to each 



member of the Board of Go- 



ELECTION' OF MEMBEISS. 



13. Balloting for members shall be held only at stated meet- 

 ings of the Board of Governors. To elect any candidate nine 

 votes must be cast, and one black ball iu live shall exclude. 

 Candidates whose names have been laid over for two sucCI -- 

 Bive meetings of the Board, cannot come up again for six 

 months. Every person elected shall, within thirty dav-t after 



old 



al any meeting who is ii 



ll. Any member who shall he gui 

 tending to endanger the welfare, b 



Club, or of malversation in ollice. i 

 Club at any meeting of the Club 1 

 {%), either present in person or by 

 days' notice of sui 

 having first been gi 



1 then, and not before, 

 lilure to do t liis his elec- 

 the Board of Governors. 



-r when his annual dues 



■ his name may 



;■ i :■..-, of the 



■ shall lie elliifled in vote 



ebted to the Club. 



r of improper conduct . 

 rests or character .,( (.ho 

 J be expelled from he 



a \oie of three-fourths 



•itten proxy, at least ten 



eting, and of the charges against him. 



the accused by the Si cretarj . 

 tBTiMoa. 



-live dollars, and the 

 ;, payable in advance 

 C ou'eleetinn. subject 



of members of the Club, and th- 

 mittee shall stand as the ttlltion o 



INITIATION FKIJS 



17. The initiation fee shall bi- 

 annual dues shall be twenty-tivi 

 on the second Tuesday of Jan 

 to Article 13. 



IS. This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote 

 of the members present at any meeting of rue <-'iub, provided 

 that notice of such propose! - bscrihed by ten 



members, be. given at a previous meeting or sent to each 

 member at least five days previous Lo its being presented. 



QTJOnUH. 



Ill For the election of Governors, for the adoption of an 

 amendment to tin; Constitution or By- Laws, or to 

 member, twenty-five members musl be present m person or 

 by proxy to constitute a quorum. At all other meetings 

 eleven (l'l) members shaB constitute a iruorum. 



CONTRACTION OJt DEBTS, 

 SO. This (Tub shall contract no indebtedness whatever, ex- 

 cept by a vote of the Board of Governors. 

 BY-LAWS. 

 r. — ORDER OF BUSISBSS. 

 1 Heading Minutes. 2. Proposal and Consideration of 

 Unendmenis. '■•. Reports. 1. Uleelion of Board ot Gov- 

 Collection of Dues. (I. .Miscellaneous Ihisimss. 

 Tliis order of business may be changed by a majority vote of 

 sent; 



IT— I i: 

 The President of the Club, or iu his nbsonce the Vice-Presi- 

 dent, shall authorize the call or special meetings df the Board 



