Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-09-03
AN ODD LITTLE ANIMAL.
NEVER HUNTED a PEccARY
AND WOULD NOT.
It Takes More Nerve and Ammunition
Than Hunters Usually Carry TO
Ering Down the ylndic-
tive Creatures.

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iects knowledge of and delight in
large and out-of- he.common kinds OF
game 'of course you never did, and
unless you have cart load OF nerve
and ammunition enough to stock
garrison wouldn't advise you TO,
The peccary as YOU doubtless know.
is a little animal somewhat on the
wild hog order, and he roams pretty
much where he pleases ia Southern
Texas and abutting regions, There
was a time when il was thought that
nothing would kill peccary but ar
rows inocuiated with the deadly poi
son OF the bloated raltlesnake Of the
Staked Plains. which the Apache In.
digns have a cheerful way OF distill-
ing; but that was before the days OF
Winchester rifles A bullet from a
Winchester is Just searching enough
TO find peccary's WtalS but the
FRANCE doesn't want to be too long.
when a man goes out hunting
| peccaries he doesn't trip lightly
through the forest steal upon his un
suspecting game and bring it down
with his trusty rife, Not when
he hunts peccaries he doesn't
If he did. nineteen seconds after no
fred his first shot he would be APP
portioued out among the drove in two
ounce lots buttons boots and baggage
counted in. The daring peccary
hunter shins up tall tree near where
the cheerful creatures will more than
likely come to feed. The peccary
has one great virtue. He cant climb
a tree. Perched safely on limb the
bold huntsman waits for the coming
OF the peccaries and when the drove
comes trotting aud grunting along be-
meath him. he sends u bullet through
II peccary's heart. Tho wounded pee
cary lies down at once. He knows Just
what's the matter lie turns his glitter
ing bead OF an eye up toward the hunter
and dies without uttering o sound.
One peccary killed out OF drove
the hunter must either have ammuui.
ton enough TO kill all the rest or
provisions enough 20 last him year.
for the survivors at once take posi-.
tions around and about the tree, and
sit there on their launches waiting
for the hunter 10 come down. lthate.
In the fullest sense OF the word. can
be expressed by looks then the pee.
cary can look aud act it toward any
living thing that has done 1t or its
companion an injury. The peccarles
were the original Knights OF Labor
Tor their motto has been from the
beginning. An injury to one Is the
concern OF all They never let up
when they start out to avenge an in.
jury. When they surround u tree
where hunter or other enemy is
perched. they never leave IL. The
peccaries go or in detachments to
feed. and relieve guard regularly.
The hunter may shoot one after an
other OF the waiting and watching
drove, and zach one. as it receives
its death wound. lies down with
out a murmur and dies never
removing its glazing eyes from
its slayer as long as life lasts Tho
i living peccaries pay no attention to
the dead or dying. but sit there on
their launches hoping for revenge
until the last one dies. As drove OF
peccaries will in ten seconds tear a
grizzly bear into such minute irag.
! ments that you can scarcely find q
piece OF bone two inches long inter-
the ceremony is over you can imagine
what show hunter would have IN
meeting a hostile group OF them.
But unmoicsted drove OF peccarics
Is as harmless as q drove OF sheep
except towards bears or mountain
lions You may pass within ten feet
Of drove OF these vindictiYe animals.
and they will not notice you with any
hostile intent unless you are foolish
: enough to commit some overt act.
/ Then your friends will wonder all
their lives whatever could have
become Of you. The pcccary for
some reason. draws the line at bear,
: and mountain lions II You are look
ing for either Of the latter and fnl
peccaries change your base. You
will find neither grizzly. silver tip.
brown or black bears, nor mountain
: lions within miles Of any range where
, poccaries are feeding. When 4
r comes to being the king Of American
bcasts the peccary holds the sceptre.
4 The peccary-I mean the white
Tipped peecary. the only one tina
G travels in drOves, tho other one the
5 collared peccary, being shy ana harm
e less and going only in pairs-is ode
3 in every way. Physically as well al
2 morally. he seems to be an abnorma
. sort OF creature. He has the genera
appearance and habit Of the hog bu
. the hoof and three stomachs OF tht
r COW. On his back he has a glant
which secretes musk, and thrc,
minutes after peccary is killed IL
l flesh will be entirely impregnate,
: with the secretion. just what thi
i composite construction OF the peccar,
Y Is fora reminisconce OF the hog. tn
o COW. and the muskrat-no one seems {,
have discovered as yet. But one thin,
i Is certain, the pcccary is tough, an
0 absolutely without fear. IN. Y. Sun
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