13 Tiger Adventure by Willard Price

Author:Willard Price [Price, Willard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Troubles of a Wild Boar

‘We were told to get a wild boar. Let’s hunt for one today.’

‘What are wild boars like?’ Roger asked.

They are very dangerous animals. A wild boar is a huge pig weighing six times as much as you. It has a very bad temper. You can’t depend upon it to be nice and polite. It hides in the bushes and when any other animal or man comes along it rushes out and kills.’

That doesn’t sound good. Can’t we just cross that off the list?’

‘Hardly. We were told to get it and we’ll get it.’

Hal was not aware that just outside the door Vic was listening.

How will we get him if he’s so savage?’ Roger asked.

‘I don’t know. Perhaps he’ll get us. We’ll take along the sleep-gun and a lasso and hope for the best.’

Vic went back to the barn-house and got his rifle.

‘Why the rifle?’ asked Jim. ‘You know shooting is forbidden.’

Vic laughed. ‘Nobody can tell me what to do or what not to do. The Hunts are going after a wild boar. If they find one they’re not going to get it, because I’ll shoot it first -just so they won’t succeed. They’re not going to get a wild boar today.’

‘Why don’t you let up on the Hunts? You’ll only get yourself in trouble.’

‘Me? I know what I’m doing. I’m good with a rifle.’

‘Are you? That’s news to me.’ said Jim. ‘I’ll get your bed ready.’

‘What’s this about a bed?’ Vic demanded.

‘I’ve a notion that you will need it before the day is over.’

Hal drove the truck to a place in the forest that he thought was just the sort a wild boar would love. There were many trees, but also much undergrowth - hundreds of bushes Where wild boar would like to hide until the moment came to charge upon any intruder.

Very carefully watching both right and left, the boys crept through the woods. Their nerves were taut. The great tusks of a boar might at any moment sink into the flesh of one of them. And when the beast had finished one boy, he would probably turn on the other.

The boys were not far from their cabin, but it seemed a million miles away. Would they ever get back to it?

Then they saw it - a huge beast with a long nose and savage teeth, two of which were too large to be contained in its mouth. They were the murdering tusks. The animal was turning up the ground hunting for juicy roots. Hal prepared to use his sleep-gun.

Before he could do so there was the crack of a rifle. Whoever had fired was not a very good shot. The bullet passed over the animal’s back, only scratching his skin.

Immediately the boar charged - not towards the Hunts, but towards Vic Stone who had dared to fire at the lord of the pig world. Vic yelled to high heaven as the long sharp tusks dug into his side. Then the boar, quite satisfied that he had killed his enemy, started to amble away.

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