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oeccaries peering at him on every side and 
drawing curiously nearer. He was very angry, 
and picking up his gun had shot the nearest two. 
“Instead of scampering away in terror, as he 
had expected, they bristled their backs and 
charged him. He scrambled into the nearest 
tree and thought he was safe, but one had sprung 
into the air and with a flirt of the head ripped 
open his shoe and plowed a deep gash in his 
foot, severing a vein. 
“By curling his feet up he kept out of further 
danger, but he was rapidly growing weak from 
bleeding, and he would soon have fallen had we 
not come to his rescue. We stanched the blood 
and got him home where he soon recovered.” 
BITTEN BY A RATTLER. 
Although still in a serious condition last 
evening Howard Hohmfaulk, sixteen years of 
age, who was bitten by a rattlesnake while on a 
hunting expedition with a companion on Sun¬ 
day morning, was thought to be out of all 
danger, says the Bisbee (Arizona) Review. It 
is not thought that he will suffer any ill effects 
from his terrible experience, which might have 
ended fatally had it not been for the prompt 
action taken by his companion, Samuel Wing, a 
youth of the same age. 
On Sunday morning Young Hohmfaulk and 
Wing left the ranch owned by the father of the 
former, being armed with shotguns and intend¬ 
ing to shoot rabbits on the other side of the in¬ 
ternational boundary line, which lies 71 short 
distance south of the ranch east of Osborn. 
After crossing the line the boys killed several 
rabbits, and tracked a cotton-tail to a hole into 
which it was thought he had gone. Bohmfaulk 
at once placed his hand in the hole, and al¬ 
most immediately shrieked in agony, the deadly 
fangs of a rattlesnake having fastened in one of 
his fingers. He realized the deadly effect the 
poison would have and tried to suck the wound, 
but with no avail. Young Wing then made a 
tourniquet of a piece of string which he placed 
above the wound, but this also was ineffective, 
and as his companion was rapidly growing 
weaker, the boy took him in his arms, and 
started walking toward the Bohmfaulk ranch, a 
distance of eight miles. The burden was too 
much for him after a half hour’s struggle, and 
lie left the stricken boy on the road while he ran 
most of the remaining distance, and informed 
Bohmfaulk, Sr., of what had happened. The 
parent imediately hitched up a bpggy and went 
to the scene, in the meantime Dr. N. C. Bledsoe, 
of the C. & A. staff being summoned from 
Bisbee. 
When he was brought to his home young 
Bohmfaulk was in a' critical condition, but an 
antidote was administered, and it is now be¬ 
lieved he will recover without any ill effects. 
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