Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-01-28 | Page 7 | Courage of the Boar

COUBAfJE 07 THE BOAR. Per contro. no sport in the world is more thoroughly enjoyable than boar hunting, or pig sticking ss It is done in India; for this Is the pluckiest brute on earth. No beast has more courage than he; in fact, an old wild boar knows no fear, not even of a tiger. The wild boar never loses his head or his heart; such courage I have never beheld In any four-footed creature. He has all the cunning commonly accredited ac-credited to the devil, and In his rage Is a demon that will charge anything of any size. I have seen a small boar work his way through a pack of dogs; and his smaller brother,' the peccary, in Braail, send a man up a tree and keep him there. The boar looks ungainly, but the India species la fleet as a horse for about three-quarters three-quarters of a mile. He bpglns with flight, shifts to cunning, and finally stands to the fight with magnificent courage, facing any odda As, riding upon him. you are about to plant your spear, he will dart Jink," as they call it In India to one side, repeating the performance several times, until he finds he cannot shake you. when, turning suddenly with ears, cocked and eyes glittering, he will charge furl-ously. furl-ously. If not squarely met with a well-almed well-almed and firmly held spear, he will upset both horse and rider. Hurling himself again and again against the surrounding spears, he will keep up his charge until killed, when he dies without a groan. Outing.