The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-07-21
An ODD LITTLE ANIMAL.
NEVER HUNTED "A PEccAR
AND WOULD NOT.
Ct Takes More Nerve and Am m unttsou
Than Hunters Usually Carry to
Hring Down the yindic-
tive Creatures

world that you ever hunted a peccary
did your" asked a sportsman who al
| fects a knowledge of and delight in
large and out of the common kinds Of
j game. ''Of course you never Gid and
unless you have a cart load of nerve
and ammunition enough to stock a
garrison I wouldn't advise you to.
| The peccary. as you doubtless know,
is little animal somewhat on the;
wild hog order. and he roams pretty
much where he pleases in Southern
Texas and AUDITING regions There
was time when it was thought that
! nothing would kill a peccary but ar
rows lnoculated with the deadly poi
son OF the bloated raItlesnake Of tho
Staked Plains which the Apache n.
alans have cheerful way of distill-
ing; but that was before the DAYS of
| Winchester rifles A bullet from a
winchester is just searching enough
to lind peccary's vitals. but the
range doesn't want to be too long.
IVY hen man goes out hunting
peccarles he doesn't trip lightly
through the forest steal upon his I'M
suspectlng game and bring it down
with his trusty rife. Not when
ne hunts peccaries he doesn't.
II ne did, nineteen seconds after he
nred his first shot he would be ap-
portloned out among the drove in two
ounce lots. buttons boots and baggage
counted in. The daring peccary
hunter shins up tall tree nj ear where
the cheerful creatures will more than
llkely come to- feed. The peccarv
has one great virtue. He can't climb
| a tree. Perched safely on limb the
! bold huntsman waits for the coming
Of the peccaries. and when the drove
comes trotting and grunting along be-
meath him, he sends a bullet through
q peccary's heart. The wounded pee
cary lies down at once. He knows lust
what's the matter. He turns his glitter
ing bead OF an eye up toward the hunter
and dies without uttering sound.
One peccary killed out OF drove
| the hunter must either have ammuni-
tlon enough to kill all the rest or
| provisions enough to last him wear
Tor the survivors at once take posi-.
lions around and about the tree. and
sit there on Their launches waiting
for the hunter to come down. If hate,
IN the fullest sense Of the word, can
De expressed by looks then the pee
cary can look aud act it toward anv'
living thing that has done it or it's
companion an injury. The peccaries
were the original Knights of Labor
! Tor their motto has been from tba
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 tree
where hunter or other enemy is
perched, they never leave it The
| peccarles go off in attachments to
feed. and relieve guard regularly.
The hunter may shoot one after an
other of the waiting and watching
drove. and each one as it receives
its death wound. lies down with
out murmur and dies never
removing its glaring eyes from
its slayer as long as life lasts The
| 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 a drove OF
! peccaries will in ten seconds tear a
grizzly bear into such minute frag-
ments that you can scarcely find a
| piece OF bone two inches long after
| the ceremony is over, you can imagine
! what show hunter would have in
| meeting a hostile group of them
! But unmolested drove of peccaries
| is as harmless as a drove OF sheep,
| fnv =
lions. You may pass within ten feet
! of a drove Of these vindictive 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 peccary. for
some reason draws the line at bears
and mountain lions. II you are look
ing for either of the latter and find
! peccaries change your base You
| will find neither grizzly, silver tip
| brown or black bears, nor mountain
| lions within miles of any range where
| peccaries are feeding. When it
comes to being the king of American
beasts the peccary holds the sceptre.
| The peccary-I mean the white
Tipped peccary, the only one that
| travels in droyes, the other one, the
collared peccary being shy ana harm
less and going only in pairs--is odd
in every way. Physically as we'll as
| morally, he seems to be an abnormal
sort OF creature. He has the general
appearance and habit of the hog, but
the hoof and three stomachs OF the
COW. On his back he has a gland
which secretes a musk. and three
minutes after a peccary is killed its
flesh will be entirely impregnated
with the secretion. just what this
composite construction OF the peccary
is for-a Renaissance of the hog, the
COW, and the muskrat-no one seems to
have discovered as yet But one thing
is certain. the peccary is tough, aud
absolutely without fear IN. Y. Sun.
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