Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-10
THE nos or nArs.
Cor. Detroit Free Press

beast into whose narrow skull lear
never enters. Il il the peccsry-ihe
Hsviiinah Of the Mexicans, the Dice
tyIes torquzfus Of the BIOLOGISTS
Bravery Is notable attribute OF man,
and Il Is discovered in birds. beasts
and fishes. don't claim the quality
Of the brute ! am about TO describe
I believe bravery cannot be said 70
exist ia senses devoid Of fear. con-
ceive that an appreciation OF danger
il a necessary menstruum 10 nooler
courage. II Is not the man OF deg
ged Indifference ] admire; IL Is the
man who refuses 10 fly when duty
bids him stand. and though he fears
death, he fears dishonor more.
Now the peccary has no particle OF
fear on account OF a show Of odds. and
appears TO live only for the purpose
Of madly dying when opportunity OF
fers. The game cock tights wi b he
roic valor, bat one sees in his swim
ming ewes, when GATED and bleeding
10 the Dit, glances of regret and name
less fear. He shudders out bis life be
meath his Growing conqueror, and ms
tiny heart, perhaps, swells with woe
At is last ihrobs. At least he looks
that way to me. The dying pachy-
derm of the Texas forest dies ID :
matter OF course" manner, a. II he
were meant to end that way and was
glad of il. He looks up in the tree
where the man sits who shot him tiew
men Of experience ever shoot them
from any other staud-po MT and anon
h. holds up his cloven hoof and
glances at il. II the peccary regrets
ANYTHING in the hour OF dissolution II
IL that he was not made like spur
reI-to climb
Roaming the glade, searching for
mast, a drove OF peccaries resemble q
drove of tame hogs. They never begin
war but when one is assailed the en-
tire drove rush 10 the attack rs mea
rush when martial yalor urges them.
Each beading eye is a fire-spark /;
tnsks are protruded. the echinatet
spine Strengthened, aud woe to the
wretch who falls in their path. Cor
ed, bitten, torn, trampled upon, and
eaten up, to the last shred OF his
clothing-such is the fate OF the man
caught by an angry drove OF pecca-
ries. With the same fury they assail
a wolf or u bull; and neither wolf
nor bull can stand up against a charge
Of half dozen peccaries. Both
know his and fly in terror from the
| field.
Lately on the Wichita river, at
tackled a trovc of peccaries. / was
safely percied in tree, armed with
a Wincheste' rifle and accompanied
by Sergeant Plat, of the Frontier
Battalion, WIN occupied bough be,
meath me.
We waited gntil the drove ap-
preached within thirty yards of our
trees and then wtfired simultaneous
| ly, killing one andwounding another.
The roar of our carhnes broughtthem
upon us with that. strange alarcity
that suggested then having waited
from stockings for jus that occasion
and kept perfectly read. for it. When
they arrived at the tre they bit il
each in turn, and then Aancing up
squatted and fixed upon Is dozer
pair OF eyes small as peas and blaz
ing with fierce purpose ant fury in
tense.
One by one we shot them, ADD they
fell, one by one, and died; each viii
ling and ready TO go, accepting hi
fate as pleasantly as school boN &c
cept apples. Not a groan or a sRea
betrayed pain or dismay. Squat
ting on their hams they gazed at VI
and took the bullets as il we web
tossing them acorns. Presently onl
one was left alive amid a doze
corpses, and there he sat, brown
bristling. furious, foaming with raj
ing life, counting death; unmindtt
of the blood that damped the gras
about him; indifferent of the fate O
eomrades-~a very epitome of hate.
Don't shoot yeti" / said to Sci
geant Plat. 4" want TO study him.
Grim, veiceless, horrible--the no
sat aud gave me back glance fo
glance. The spot he squatted upo
was within the radius of red an
bed The insects crawled over hir
and siung his thick hide; they was
ed their formic acid, blunted thei
lancets i'm vain. AS we'll might the
have stung the cactus plant CROWNS
beside their bed After a time III
old boar grew weary of gazing an
he got up and went round, smellln
the bodies of his late companions
Then he ate few acorns that ha,
fallen from the tree we perched IN
and after that he deliberately stretch
ep himself at the foot of the tree, in
tending 10 remain sentry and pre-
vent our slipping away without hi
permission; or without doing by hin
as we had done by the others.
We did not keep him waiting mucl
longer. Plat aimed ut his heart ant
pierced il with a forty-four calibe
bullet; with single glance upwarC
from sinister eye. the hog died gen
tly, and with his life ended his on,
emotion-hate.
Texas & Pacific and Fort Worth
Denver City locomotive engineers OF
ten encounter droves OF peccaries. a
| suppose do all engineers who opeI
ate on the western Texas road. NJ
whistle Is sounded to Brighten them
The engineers know that the pecca
ries cannot be frightened The en-
CINE PUSHES into the midst OF tn
drove aud those not killed outrtgh
die madly. charging and biting at tn
wheels that crush them.
i A peccary Is in oil respects q bog
He looks, smells. tastes like hog
aud Is a hog. but for thing oil 10
domitable courage OF the lower type
for a hater of quenehless fury, an
| for a fighter 10 the las, threb OF hi
heart. commend me 20 the heGce Dix
Iotyles torquaius. me indigenous Tea
as hog. q bEate that would, IL h
could. while riding in the midst of