| Show VARIOUS KINDS OF COURAGE individuality among lower animals as a marked as it Is I 1 among human being beings 1 I believe that there are as many different kinds of courage mong ani aril mals aa as amorie men bald said john trainor of riamond va V afier there a are re nun who can wade into a crowd of husky opponents and aa as long ae as fists flats are the weapons fight to the last gasp some of these same men may dodge around the corner as soon as a revolver shown up on the other hand a gun fighter deprived of his weapon may get out 0 of the way speedily before the fists of an angry enemy there li Is just about the same sort of difference between the courage dis played by a possum and a coon I 1 TC ve just junt come back from fram a little hunting bunting trip in the mountains of virginia and I 1 heard beard more than one story which proved this N when a po poe sum Is treed freedor tre edor or denned benned de nned he never pre tends to show fight he lie just hugs I 1 the limb and calmly waits for one of the hunters to climb up the tree or i into the den and pull him out of course he will bite bits if he Is not seized behind the neck but he never puts up a fight now a coon Is one of the nastiest customers for a pack of doge dogs to ban die dle that you can readily find he lie Is game core and many a able coon dog baa has passed away aa as a result of one of these encounters first of all when he finds the dogs on his trail he will try to escape but when he ie Is cornered there la is bound to be some trouble for a dog or two of the pack the peculiar feature though la 18 that bat a possum can whip a coon with out half trying the coon la in afraid of the possum and gives him a wide berth they tell stories down there in the mountains to the effect that a coon worsted in a fight with a pos mum hai ban fought ought off a pack of dogs and that this same pack has then treed the possum who allowed him gelf to be captured without a struggle ruggle et A possum has coon courage but no dog course I 1 dont pretend to un der stand tho the reason for these traits but I 1 am dim sure of the fact facts |
