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A Wild Boar Hunt in the Fastnesses near Bald Point, Ky.

     From the Covington Advertiser.

     On Saturday about 150 persons, with dogs, guns, etc. met in the public square of Union, organized under the leadership of Mr. Clarkson, and proceeded to the farm of J. D. Smith, on Gunpowder, which a vicious wild boar had visited the night previous. Here Medoc, a noted dog belonging to Lucian Dickerson, found the trail, and the entire pack was soon in full cry.

     After a run of more than an hour through the dense thickets and among the bluffs, the boar broke cover toward the open country, with the dogs in hot pursuit. Here the hunt grew very exciting, the pursuers being frequently in full view of the chase, and using their guns whenever they could, and the dogs [fox-hounds] pressing the game closely, but as yet unable to bring him to bay. In fact, it was almost certain death for one to approach him, his formidable tusks proving such fearful and deadly weapons of defense that he had up to this time killed eight outright and wounded four.

     Finally, as he was crossing the Big Bone Road, near the residence of Erastus Garrison, a powerful bulldog, belonging to Ira Percival, of Union, was let loose, and immediately attacked the ferocious beast. Then ensued a desperate struggle. The boar fought as if he knew that his life was in the balance, and the dog was equally game. The latter seized the maddened animal by the right fore shoulder, and in spite of stabs and gashes from the sharp tusks, held on with the tenacity for which the breed is noted. The hunters coming up joined in the battle with pistols, clubs, and stones, and under the attack of the combined forses the boar was at length stretched on the ground, conquered only in death. On examination it was found that during the chase he had received fourteen shots, all inflicking severe wounds. He weighed about 500 pounds, and his tusks were 8 inchs in length by actual measurement.

     The chase lasted about four hours, and a notable feature of the closing scene was the fact that though the dog was nearly torn to pieces and his antagonist was covered with wounds, neither uttered a cry during the fierce deathstruggle, but both were grim, silent, relentless, and game to the very last, and not until the boar was dead could the dog be induced to release his hold.

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