The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-05

gun. lie sat for several days under shed.
nesting sronnd Of tho eG a%Taiis. and whenever
hawk hoverod over the spot within gunsnot he
blazed away: and tho hawk. came down. He
took a. hint and stayed away and Farmer
KNIGHTS little ,Gemc birds, are raising their
winged enemies from the sky.
Tho vindiotive Little Feccary-wise Hunt
ers DO Not Provoke IL.
"Ihaven't the least iden in the world that
you ever hunted peccary. did youT asked a
sportsman who affects knowledge OF and
delight in large and out the common kinds
OF game. "Ot course you nevor die. and un-
loss you have a cart load OF nerve and ammu-
milton enough to stock n garrison l wouldn't
advise you to. The peccary. as you doubtless
know. is a little animal. somewhat on tho wild
hog order. and no roams pretty much where
no pleases In southern Texas and abutting
regions. There was a timo when 1t was
thought that nothing would kill a peccary but
arrows inoculated with the deadly poison OF
tho bloatcd rattlesnake OF tho Stakod Plains
which tho Apache Indians have a cheerful
way OF dlstilling and applying: but that was
before the days Of Winchester rifles. A bullet
from Winchester Is just searching enough
to find peccary S vitals. but the range doesn't
want to be too long.
When man goes out hunting pcccarles he
doesn't trip lightly through the forest steal
upon his unsusrectinE game. and bring It
down with his trusty rife. Not when he hunts
pcccarics he doesn't. II he did. nineteen sec
onds after he fired his first shot he would be
npportionod out among tho drove in two.ounce
lots. buttons boots. and baggage counted in.
The daring pcccary huntor shins up tall tree
near where tho cheerful creatures will more
than likely come to feed. The pcccary has on 9
great virtue. He cant climb tree. pcrched
safely on II limb tho bold huntsman waits for
the coming Of tho peccarics. and when tho
Grove comes trottinG and gruntinE along be-
neath him. he sends n bullet through a pec.
cary's heart. The wounded reccary lies down
at once. Hc knows Just what's tho matter. He
turns his Elittering bend Of an eye up toward
the hunter ana dies without uttering sound.
one peccary killed out OF a. drove. tho
hunter must either have ammunition enough
him year for the survivors at orco take po-
stions around and about the tree. and ait there
en se domn wn III ne nssr to
word. can be expressed by looks. thDn the pee
cary gan look and act it toward any living thing
The peccarles we're the. original Knights Of
Labor. for their motto las been from the begin
they M whsn tn they s' START out 1T to
avenge an injury. When they surround
Is pseh waerG thsv hp.tsr
carries 60 ot1 in ds!aenmcnts 10 feed. and an r re-
shoot one aItor snoher Of the " waiting ana
Watching drove. and each one. us it receives its
death wound. lies down without a murm ur
its SLAYER as long AS lie lasts. The living pee.
carries pay no attention 70 the dead or dying.
but sit there on their haun hes; hoping for
p pee will in ten seconds tear grizzly
bear into SUCH minute fragments that you can
scarcely find IL liece Of bone two inches lon.
what show hunter would have in meeting
= hostile group OF them. But unmolr les! Ell
a cL o, lerS"riss Is as harmless as drove OF
lou may pass wit hin ten feet u u drove OF
these vindictive animals. and they will not no.
tlce y0n with any hostile intent unless you are
foolish enough to commit some overt act
Then your friends will wonder all theis lives
whatever could have becom, Of you. The pee
and mountain lions. II you are looking Tor
either OF thu latter and find .peecari"s, change
your base. I9Y will nnd mother grizzly. silver
tip. brown or b. lack bears. nor mountain lions
within miles OF any range where peccnries arc
feeding. When it comes to being the king OF
Tho pec"nry-l mean the white-llnn Ssig Pee C.
cary. the only one that travels in drDves the
other one. the collared reccnry. being shy and
every way. Physically az we'll as morally. he
seems TO he an abnormal sort OF creature. He
has the general appearanee and habit Of the
hog. but the hoofs and three s:omachs OF the
COW. On his back he has q gland which So
cr-tes musk. and three minutes after a pee
mated with the secretion. Just what this COM
posite construction OF tie peccarv is fora
"Reminiscences Of tho hog the COW. and the
yet. But one thing is certain. the peccary is
tough. and absolutely without !eur."
freed by an lIephant-Dccldediy Worse
Than BelnE freed by Something Smaller.