Evening journal., 1893-02-14
MORE ABOUT WILD HOGS.
No skepticlsm About the Recent Stories
A Hog In Confinement One Thing; Hog
at Large Another.

No skepticlsm About the Recent Stories
A Hog In Confinement One Thing; Hog
at Large Another.
EAsroN. Nd. Feb. i4.-In your issue
Of the eth instant notice your paragraph
from the New York Sun headed. Taken
with little salt "rhe wild Hog Chase
at Snow Hill Last Night will Excite the
Skepticism Of Resident Eastern Shore
men.
Not at all II is as entertaining to us
rustics 60 hear big city newspaper
writer on rural affairs in which he is an
ignoramus, as are the rustics ideas to
him in things metropolitan. II the hogs
hunted were long, wild and old, the in
teresting feature would be. how they
got of so well, losing only two or three
dogs
The Sun judges by sty hogs but take
one of those same lazy pampered animals,
not necessarily razor back, as they
term IL, and turn him out, root hog,or
die, and he won't die by any means. He
will root and hunt for living and be
come a metamarphosed animal occasion
ally one or more OF heard will go
positively wild or back to the original
state in which he acquires a gaint ap-
pearance something like razor back +"
His tusks make great growth, while
the senses Of sight, hearing and smell
become phenomenally acute
In activity. running, swimming rivers,
! jumping over or bursting through any
ordinary fence on the run he
matches an ordinary dog or
horse. A hog may sometimes. as
popular opinion has it, cut his own
throat while swimming; in other cases
that idea is all bosh. With an unob
structed view, the wild hog is apt to see
you half mile away. and viii generally
run away, but not always. II you sur.
prise him at close quarters he may attack
you, and as 10 ferocity a domestic hog
run wild is as dangerous brute to cor
ner as there is, think.
The writer has seen such hogs trapped
and feels convinced that If the intelli.
gent gentlemen who represent the New
York Sun, were penned with a freshly
captured bad specimen for two seconds
the most earnest appeal of their lives
would be-"Here, take the New Hori
Sun in exchange for two more seconds OF
time to climb that fence.
Like John Randolph In his historica
order TO refill his cup (''if that last wal
tNlAtt klNc Aht Achf IL ltu Antn thlltt
If the writer, who has never been In
bear fight, wanted a less dangerous ami
NAL than wild hog (which he knows q
encounter, he would take the bear, as h'
doesn't know him yet. lost a fine two
year-old mule once, he was ripped opeI
and disembowled by one of those terribl,
tusks. Some think it remarkable h
could reach so high and there is wher'
they fail to realize the strength anC
activity Of the animal He could treat
man in the same fashion, with Irresistible
strength, and, quick as a flash or ris
and slash a mans throat with ease, witt
his curved worries.
The particular animal Of which l speal
had not proved vicious, the children hal
frequented his field, and the above wa
the first intimation; but not the last
Next day l was hastily called the no
had broken in where other stock was, an
! / saw him crouch for rush on anothe
mule. That mule had sense enough (
! give the hog a kick and run. Then tn
hog crouched like a sneaking dog for
4 rush on a valuable mare, aud ] was jus
in time to hit the mare with a stone, an
make her run.
. That hog would soon have been bal
case. but / tanned him sufficiently with
4 few loads of duck shot so he could
= driven up into confinement and his tusk
p severed with an axe
The tusks make very slow growth in
hog kept in confnement-Oncew we mar
aged to trap bona fide wild specime
that had been at large for months and
) am sure any man foolish enough to ents
the trap, would have been torn 20 piecel
he was a very vicious brute and wa
shot
+ Stories that appear, In which men mai
i a successful encounter. with only pitc
! fork, against = savage hog. or bull al
experiences the writer doesn't unde
N stand-for having entered into such ei
II counters with merely halfwild or onl
refractory specimens ! have been glad
a call it a drawn battle, and TO use a con
n mon expression get of with a who
u hide"
n Once determined TO stop a hogs a.
vance on me. with pitch fork plant'
# in its head, aud consider myself
# strong and active as a l00.pound mi
n usually is. but ] confess ] can't stop
hog that way. He pushed the fork an
me at the end of 10 where he pleased
was all could do TO keep the length
n the handle between US. A hog in co
IS 6nement is one thing, and hog at larl
,s is another.
k There is nothing skeptical about NJ
a GILES story. We don't take raz
q. backs with salt !" in fact have no razo
"a backs that / know af on the peninsul
,e such as used TO be in the South, and
suppose are still Hogs are bred TO
N high point as cattle now, but any he
. is liable, think, to become wild IL
m large, aud might possibly breed back
N something like razor backs, in fe
generations TALBOT
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