The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-03
TIE DYNAMIC Bur no.
his Active Hind Legs as Weapons OF
Cffense and Defense.

ETOW Tue Outt F1uQC&SC0 CHRONICLE,
The burro has from time immemorial been
an important animal. He has played in
great roles IN ancient times, and the biblical
chrouiclers paid vast attention to his many
points. He has ever been regarded as a pa
tient aud laborious brute, utterly devoid of
artistic tastes and sentimentality, but
Patrick Henry Gale of the town of Indio,
who has had an intimate acquaintance
with asses OF all kinds, throws a new light
on the burro's character. In fact, he shows
that as a fighter the burro is unequaled, and
| rather surprised his hearers by saying that
he was ready to back burro against any
thing from grizzly bear to a royal Bengal
| tiger. One gentleman had expressed won-
der at burro whipping q stallion. when
Mr.. Gale explained:
walksn
"Surely you are mistaken somebody
said. b" You don't mean to say that jack
can whip stallion"
THAT is exactly what mean,n answered
| Gale. They are the worst fighters in the
world. Why. bless me if don't believe a
jack will fight anything. | know a good
deal about burros," he added in a reflective
| way.
Being pressed for information he re-
marked:
Il Will give few anecdotes regarding
burros which have come under my personal
observation. We were a large crowd once
| crossing the desert, and when camping
above Mojave we saw a goodlY number Of
| stock browsing in the open plain. The first
care of one of our men was to securely
tether our old stallion, who was most
vicious, and who was never SO happy as
when engaged in manning and wounding
| stock. My friend had taken extraordinary
pains to secure his warlike animal, and we
sat down to our meal. No sooner had we
commenced to eat than we heard the thur
der Of horses hoofs, aud, jumping up, saw
this brute charging in the direction OF the
| herd,
"Doggone it. said the owner, that brute
will injure half dozen horses or SO, and l
shall have to pay damages. Did you ever
see such luckp
~ had, however, noticed a long, low,
rakish gray outline in the horizon, and.
catching up my glasses, saw that it was a
| JACK.
Don't worry yourself, old man, said;
that burro will settle his hash
"'BoShr he answered, he'll chaw that
| jack up alive
'"Will heP
I'VE heard loud hee>haw, and there
was Master Jack bearing down upon the
horse. For few minutes we could see
nothing for dust. 1t was a terrible battle,
THAT burro Ill get killed. said the
| owner of the horse, excitedly.
He had no sooner spoken the words than
| the horse came tearing back to camp with
| a great raw place on his withers. The
burro had simply torn it TO shreds.
"'Good heavens! If he hain't ruined my
horsep said the owner Of the animal in a
tone Of mingled despair and rage That
horse was the worst fighter in Kaintucky.'
"'Wel,' l replied, soothingly, you
bet he'll never fight another burro.'
~ once saw another battle with burro
and stallion, which, however, proved
more disastrous to the latter. 1t was at a
ranch, and a miner came along with burro
laden with provision, pickaxes. etc. in fact,
a complete outfit. He asked leave to stay
for the night near our house, and we con-
sented.
"'By the way, said the farmer, Il have a
mighty bad horse here-an out-and-out
fighter. You'd better tie up that jack of
yours or he'll get hurt
CT amt afeard, sal i the miner.
"'Well, it's yer own bizness. We call
the horse Pizen COS he's such an ornary
| fighter
"'My jack can look arter himself sal
the miner haughtily.
~ had never yet seen burro and
horse together. and l thought the miner
! was rash.
"Look here 1 Clipped in, why don't
you tether that JACKIE There'll be dead
donkey around here tomorrow and you
| can't blame me-
"He looked at me for a moment and
quietly observed:
"'Y Dung man, where was you bornF
I'D like to take the cuSsedness out of
that ERE chap said the ranoher, as he
pulled at his pipe when we we're housed.
Nothing would have pleased me better
than for our old Pizen to kill that jack.
81 guess said the ranchero. with hui
morous twinkle in his off eye, that ere jack
is lonely. Suppose we introduce Pizen to
him.
1--WE stole out of the house quietly. The
miner was sitting by the fire ne had built
near the pump and was cooking his meal.
He saw us 60 toward the barn. We felt
mighty ashamed Of ourselves, and the
farmer looked at me aud said:
"Gale, amt got the heart to do it Il
amt the miner | care for, but that poor
donkey. He an't done us any HARM
"'No, he amt said, but when Pizen's
getting away with him we can rush out of
the house and stop it,
"'All right sighed the gentle-hearted
farmer. 1T must be done just to teach
them miners that we amt simple country
folk
I'VE headed Pizen for the jack, and
there was clash as if two thunderbolts had
met We rushed out of the cabin as agreed
upon, but instead of the burro trying to run
away from Pizen, there was Pizen running
away from the burro and the jack in full
pursuit. The river ran through the ground,
and the horse headed straight on the banks.
He did not choose his way, but fell from a
steep bluff and broke his neck, dying in
stantly. When we got to the banks the
burro was quietly eating the succulent
grass, and old Pizen was floating in the
water.
lowell, I'll be-~
1--WE said no more.
1.-THE miner looked at us when we re-
turned, but we did not exchange good
nights. We went silently into the house
and moodily sought our beds. When be-
tween the covers the farmer said: Gale
said, WELL ard his answer was:
"'l'll be-
my next story carries me back to Mex
leo. | was not present, but a friend OF
mine, a miner, tells me this, and, from what
l have seen of burros, believe 1t:
HE was travelling in the Sierra Madre
range of mountains with four burros. The
leader was pretty good-sized animal. and
he had pretty good-sized load on his
back. The burro and my friend were IN the
advance, and as he turned a bend in the
narrow road he saw a huge cinnamon bear
standing by a bush, apparently engaged
eating the berries. We chung to the wall of
the mountain in terror, ana expected 20 see
the burro take flight But instead of that
,-Lot did tho laadar do lint omen his laws to