400 Origines Zoologicce, 



Although the flesh of the hog is held in abhorrence by the 

 Jew and the Turk, no other animal affords so large a series 

 of savoury viands to the table of the Christian. Every part 

 is in use, except the brains and the marrow, which, from 

 ancient prejudice, are thought to create melancholy. The 

 smaller intestines make chitterlings, and the ears are made 

 into souse ; as it was said of the fiddler Crowdero, — 



** His warped ear hung o'er the strings. 

 Which was but souse to chitterlings ; 

 For guts, some write, ere they are sodden, 

 Are fit for music or for pudden." Hudibras. 



The sides of the head are made into cheeks, and the tongue 

 is pickled. The neck or collar makes brawn ; whence any- 

 thing strongly muscular is called brawny. Of the shoulders 

 are made gammons and blade-bones ; of the back-bone are 

 made the chine and the griskin ; the thinner portion of the 

 ribs forms the sparerib ; the sides and the belly make the 

 flitch and the rasher; the hind legs make the ham and the 

 hock ; the feet of the sucking pig make petit-toes ; of the 

 heart, the liver, and the lights, with morsels from the throat, 

 are made the harslet or fry ; of the spare lean parts are made 

 sausages ; the larger intestines, stuffed with grits mixed with 

 the blood make black-puddings. 



" And fat black-puddings, proper food 

 For men that most delight in blood." Hudibras. 



The bristles are made into brushes, and point the waxed 

 thread of the shoemaker. 



THE BEAR. 



Rough as a bear, may be taken either from the coarseness 

 of his coat, or the rudeness of his embrace ; for, being fur- 

 nished with collar bones, he is able to climb, and presses his 

 adversary to death by the closeness of his hug : and he, whose 

 manners are unpolished and his actions unmannerly, is said 

 to be rude as a bear. He was made the instrument to avenge 

 the insult to the prophet, by the mockery of the children, and 

 destroyed forty-two of them. (2 Kings, ii. 24<.) In the winter, 

 when his food is hardly to be procured, he becomes sleepy, 

 and partially torpid, rolled up, with the paws before his 

 mouth, that they may be kept warm by the breath, whence 

 he is said to suck, " or quarter upon, his own paws." * At 

 one time, it was thought that the young were brought forth 

 a mere shapeless mass, which the dam brought into proper 



* [See, in the Entomological Magazine^ i. 327 — 332., an account of the 

 winter habits of bears in Russia ; and in Mag. Nat. Hist., VI, 510., a short 

 notice of their earliest vernal habits in Switzerland.] 



