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were removed to Morden, a few miles distant. 
The Russian breed was wilder and more ferocious 
than the French. The litters, which averaged from 
ro to 12, were not interfered with, but ran wild with 
their parents. They were not hunted but caught 
in nets or shot. Writing to a mutual friend in 
September, 1879, Mr. Drax says: ‘“ I fenced them in 
with a wood paling in the wood where I built the 
present tower, and used to shoot them. ‘The latter 
part of the time I kept them at Morden Park, and 
bred a lot of them, feeding them on turnips and corn. 
They were savage and troublesome, however, to keep 
within bounds, and I therefore killed them. They 
were good eating when fed upon corn.” 
Scott, in his “ British Field Sports,” the second 
edition of which was published in 1820, says, “Several 
Wild Boars of this accidental kind have flourished 
within my memory ; in particular two in the woods 
between Mersey Island and Colchester, in Essex, 
which many years since were the terror of that 
neighbourhood for a considerable time, and stood 
many a gallant hunt.” 
In olden times the enclosure in which the Boars 
used to be fattened was termed a ‘“ Boar-frank.” 
Shakespeare uses the word in the Second Part of 
Henry IV.” : 
“Doth the old boar feed in the old frank ?” 
And in one of the Household Books of Lord William 
Howard, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, under date 
Sept. 25, 1622, is an entry of payment 
“To Rob. Burthom for mending a boar-frank ... . ijd.” 
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