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Kephart the Hunter

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  • 4 The Berea Quarterly grudges and plans redress for next week, or the week after! . . . "When the pigs came, I fed them redpepper pie. Then all said good-bye to my hospitality save one slab-sided, tusky old boar—and he planned a campaign. At the first smell of smoke he would start for my premises. Hidden securely in a nearby thicket, he would spy on the operations until my stew got to simmering gently and I would retire to the cabin and get my fists in the dough. Then, charging at speed, he would knock down a stake, trip the lug- pole, and send my dinner flying. . . . "I dubbed this pig Belial; a name that Bob promptly adapted to his own notion by calling it Be- liar. 'That Be-liar,' swore he, 'would cross hell on a rotten rail to git into my 'tater patch!' "Finally I could stand it no longer, and took down my rifle. . . . However, in the mountains it is more heinous to kill another man's pig than to shoot the owner. So I took craft for my guide. ... I stalked Belial. At last I had him dead right; broadside to me and motionless as if in a daydream. I knew that if I drilled his ear, or shot his tail clean off, it would make him meaner than ever. He sported an uncommonly fine tail, and was proud to flaunt it. I drew down on that member, purposely a trifle scant, fired, and—away scuttled that boar, with a broken tail that would dangle and cling to him disgracefully through life. "Exit Belial! It was equivalent to a broken heart. He emigrated, or committed suicide, I know not which, but the Smoky Mountains knew him no more,"
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