Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — A Swift “Razor-Back." [ARTICLE]

A Swift “Razor-Back."

A preposterous “yam” may become excusable when it is picturesquely used to illustrate an animal peculiarity. It is well known that the “razor-back” swine of the Southern States are marVelously swift runners, andthat they seem to lead a sort of charmed life amid many dangers. The Early County (Georgia) News says that last summer Colonel Taylor Jenkins, who lives a few miles north of Blakely, found oue of these “wild hogs” in his corn-tield. and went out to kill it with his rifle. He searched about till he “Jumped” it in the field, and down a corn-row the hog went like lightning: ■Mstevwteihia uncrTTftfViftcarid'firod, but the hog continued to run, evidently untouched. It disappeared in the corn, and the colonel went after it. Again he “jumped” it; again hefired, and once more the animal continued to run, unhurt. Five times this happened. The colonel began to get alarmed. Something must have happened to his trusty rifle. To make sure, lie took a small block of wood as a target, placed it at a distance greater than that at which he had filed at the hog, fired five times fill it, gos a hatchet, chopped it and found his five bullets all In one hole in the middle of the block. That settled it; he knew now that the fault was not In him or his gun, but that the hog had simply outrun his bullets!