98 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
the wildest and most picturesque land, a great part 
of which was naturally wooded, and another part 
artificially planted with larch, Scotch fir, and spruce. 
About the year 1826 he received a present from 
the late Sir William Ingilby of a German Boar, 
and from Mr. Michaelis two Alpine boars and two 
sows. The German boar was a large, powerful 
animal, of a tawny red colour, and the others were 
a dusky black. It was my father’s intention to 
turn them all out in the woods, and let them have 
the free run of about two hundred acres; but the 
red boar was found to be so utterly irreclaimable 
through his ferocity, that, so far as he was concerned, 
the idea was given up, and the black boars and sows 
only were allowed their liberty. A cross of the two 
breeds was, however, determined on, and in sub- 
sequent years the sows produced both red and black 
progeny. 
“ Although most formidable-looking creatures, the 
Alpine boars were perfectly harmless, unless inten- 
tionally irritated, and I must allow that their tempers 
were occasionally tried by myself amongst others, 
when they could be teased from some safe spot. 
On such occasions they would stand with one foot 
much advanced, and the head drawn back, and the 
attitude was emphasized by a ferocious ‘chopping’ 
of the jaws, till the foam used to fall on the ground, 
and the great formidable tusks were alarmingly 
displayed. I only wonder now why the numerous ' 
blows on the head from large stones, which were a 
part of the performance, were never revenged when 
