From The Black Forest

1895

Wild Boar and Boarhounds for Austin Corbin's Game Park.

Six passengers on board the North German Lloyd steamship Scandia which arrived at her pier in Hoboken on Monday were neither seasick nor homesick on the voyage. One of them was a wild boar, who thrived on the kitchen slops, and the others were young boarhounds, who learned German and chased each other around the decks. The wild boar came from the Black Forest in Germany. He and the hounds were consigned to Austin Corbin, and they will be sent to his game park, Blue Mountain Forest, in New Hampshire. Mr. Corbin has enough wild boars roaming around his park now to relieve the monotony of the landscape, but he has been unable to capture any of them for breeding purposes.

The boar that arrived on the Scandia is about half grown. He suggests a big gray rat old in wickedness, but the ship's butcher, who has taken care of him, says that he has behaved like a perfect gentleman. He grunts like an ordinary pig and his appetite, too, suggests that animal. He has been confined in a large wooden box with bars across the front. The crew paid him a lot of attention, and he grunted his thanks for anything eatable from potatoes down.

He didn't hold a candle in popularity, however, to the five young boarhounds. They were permitted to roam on deck in pleasant weather and every one made friends of them. They still have much to learn, but they are not a bit proud. When the butcher talks German to them they wag their tails and mind. Several men offered them good advice in English and they ignored it. — Sun.