The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-06-25
WHEN WOLVES KEEP SILENT.
Points About the Animals Learned In Q
Menagerie.

Menagerie.
An old man stood in front of the cage
OF wolves for long time and then said
to the keeper who was trying to sell
him catalogues: ''That wolf in the
corner has familiar air about him. He
reminds me strongly of the only wolf
ever had close acquaintance with.
was boy about sixteen years old, and
Iowa was pretty wild then. lived on
my fathers farm there, and we had a
big hog which ran away from home
every chance he got He was the mean
est, stubbornest, most contrary critter
you ever see, and hated him like poison.
Many's the weary mile had tramped
after him, and many the sore back and
tired arms l had got through driving
and coaxing the brute home One day
he was particularly aggravating, and
after had tried to coax him with feed
etc., he bolted off into wood where !
could not see to follow him.
Il was about to give up the chase in
disgust, when l heard him squealing
terribly, as if some one was cutting his
throat. Guided by the sound l soon
found him fast in the teeth of what at
first took to be a big dog, l had stout
stick in my hand and brought it down
with all my force on the dogs backbone.
He let go of the pig, without making a
yelp of any kind at the blow, and looked
at me. Then saw that it was wolf.
l was terribly scared, but stood my
ground. We each looked ut the other a
few minutes in silence, and the hog
skunk around behind my heels, for all
the world like a dog.
Gas the wolf did not attack me ]
backed away from him. So did the hog.
The wolf came step nearer. con-
tlnued to retreat; so did the hog, and
the wolf walked near us with an air
which seemed to say: If you don't
attack me, / won't attack you;
but | just would like to meet
that hog out alone AS soon as /
got over my fright at meeting the wolf,
could not help laughing at that hog.
Usually SO stubborn, not to say pig
headed, he now walked along on the
other side of me from the wolf, like a
spaniel For a joke tried to drive him
off and he squealed with terror.
kicked him, but he would not leave me.
Then was mean enough to fall on him
with my stick and take some satisfac-
tion out of his thick hide for the MANY
bad turns owed him; but he seemed to
like it. Nothing could make him bulge
from my side, and even after the wolf
left us he continued to hold his place
until the door of the stye was opened
before him.
What you said about the VOLTS
silence under your blow" remarked the
keeper, sis characteristic of the species.
They howl loudly enough at times, but
when fighting they are dumb. One of
Barnum and Bailey's wolves raised
litter OF her pups in winter quarters at
bridgeport last year, and it was inter
esting to watch her train them. She
began young, and would grip their tails
and their ears slightly at first. If they
cried out, she would bite them hard; if
they were silent, she would lick and
fondle and feed them, Finally she got
them where they would stand lots of
punishment without whimper''
What are you giving us?" asked the
old man.
I'm willing to believe it," said a re-
porter who had been listening. "You
know what Nacaulay says in his Pro
phecy OF Capys' about the wolff
When all the pack loud baying,
Her bloody lair surrounds,
She dies in silence biting hard
Amidst the dying hounds Z"
Il amt much on poetry" replied the
keeper, "but the man who wrote that
knew something about wolves."-N. Y.
Tribune.