The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12
The Wild Hog OF India.

/ The Wild Hog or India.
Those who have formed their concep-
ton Of pig exclusively upon the tame pig
OF the civilized sly, have no adequate
idea Of the free wild pig of the Indian
| Jungle. Like the North American In
dian, the pig is debased by contact with
civilization. He becomes cowardly,
weak, dirty, and prey to an inordinate
thirst for swill. The distance between
the tame Indian Of Saratoga, who steals
chickens and wallows drunken in the
gutter, and the fierce warrior of the
Western plains, is not greater than that
which separates the despised pig of
/ civilization from the wild and fearless
quarry of the East Indian pig-sticker.
The latter pig, whose spirit has never
been broken with pig-yokes, and whose
moral nature has never been poisoned
with swill, is one of the bravest inhabit-
ants Of the jungle, and has been known
to attack and put to rout the majestic
elephant and the ferocious tiger.
The full name OF the East Indian pig
is Sats i'adicu8, though no one except a
! punctilious scientific person ever calls
him by it. Among beginners in the art
OF pig-sticking he is sometimes magnilo-
quently described as wild boar-though
he is4,very often wild SOW: but pig
stickers of reputation uniformly call him
pig, or n hog. SuS indicus often grows
to the lenghth of four feet and eight
or ten inches, and reaches the height of
three feet, or even forty inches, at the
shoulder. When full grown his strength
is enormous, and in speed he will some
times rival the fastest Arabian horse.
/ He enters upon existence in q striped
state; subsequently he becomes brown;
when in the prime of life, he affects a
dingy black color; and when old, he is
gray and grizzled. At no period can he
be honestly called handsome or a grace
full animal, but his courage and tenacity
of life demand our respect.
In point of teeth the tame pig has
sadly deteriorated. The wild boar of
India, which is the type OF the barbaric
pig of all ages, is armed with long semi
circular tusks. Those in the lower jaw
sometimes attain the length of eight or
nine inches. They curve outward and
upward, and the edges are kept sharp by
the pigs constant habit of securing them
against the tusks of the upper jaw. The
swiftness and power with which he uses
those tusks to carve an enemy are almost
incredible. A hunting dog is frequently
cut nearly in two by single stroke Of
boar's tusks, and horses and men are
occasionally killed by bears which have
become tired of being hunted, and which
try to infuse little variety into the af-
fair by hunting their enemies. When
wounded he is an exceedingly dangerous
beast to face on foot, unless the hunter is
a lawless rutfian who is capable of killing
him with rifle. One can scarcely i'm
agine all Englishman so lost to all sense
of decency as to shoot fox, and next to
that crime ranks, in Anglo Indian estima-
ton, the loathsome outrage of killing a
pig by any process except that of pig
sticking. = W L. Alden, IN Harper'S
Magazine.
A Bitter Bitten.
They were playing faro in a room on
! Pine street. It was early in the morn
ing, full four hours before daybreak.
There was goodly gathering around the
board, and all went well until pair of
visitors stepped in. One was evidently
an old customer, for he saluted the dealer
in familiar way. He was dressed like
| one of the many who secure livelihood
by showing strangers from the country
how to buck the tiger and place their
money on the wrong card. His COM
panion looked like man from the rural
districts His pants were tucked in
his boot-tops, and his slouched hat he
wore in the country fashion. But the
hat shaded pair of eyes that sparkled
with uncommon luster and pale face
and forehead that were not tanned and
brown as an agriculturist's should be.
When the two entered the bank, the
first described above approached the
! dealer.
"Get on to. his knobs" said he.
"Im on to him." said the dealer
"who is the gilly ?"
GA granger from Lincoln county.
Fresh as an oyster, and with big wad
on him. He's good for clean thousand
if we only work him right"
Well, you know how to work him.
Let him come right in, said the dealer.
"Thats all right enough, but he
won't go in unless do, and can't be-
cause I'm broke. Stake me?"
The dealer spoke to the proprietor of
replace. The proprietor said "Stake
him, of course" and the dealer handed
the supposed roper-in $40 worth of
change. The latter took it, put it away
down in his pocket, and, nodding to the
granger from Lincoln county, said
"Let's go down and interview his 'nibs
on the corner" His "nibs" was the
corner saloonist. When they got down
there the pants came out Of that agri-
culturist's top-boots, the lapels of his
coat were thrown back, and disclosed
city tie and collar, and the hat placed in
its proper position revealed anything
but an unsophisticated countenance.
The two shook hands, said the scheme
had worked well, and then stood up to
the bar until more than one-half their
ill-gotten gains had passed over it.
Then they went out on the sidewalk,
locked arms to prevent each other from
falling, and told all whom they met on
the way they had beaten the bank.-,&.
Louis Republican.