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serve onely to whet the other two lowest: but with 
those lower tuskes, they stryke marvellously and kill 
oftentimes.” 
There is a difference between the wild and tame 
swine which, as may be supposed, did not escape 
the notice of huntsmen in olden times, when the 
pursuits of the chase alone engrossed thei most 
immediate attention. The information which they 
have left us on this and many other points is all 
the more valuable, as we have no longer the means 
of forming those comparisons which, from the expe- 
rience of their lives, they were able to record with 
accuracy. 
“The difference between the wild swine and our 
hogs,” says Turbervile, “is great, and that in sundry 
respects. First they are commonly blacke, or grisled, or 
streaked with blacke, whereas ours‘are white, sanded, 
and of all coloures. Therewithal the wyld sywne in 
their gate do always set the hinder foote within the 
fore foote, orvery neare, and stay themselvesmoreupon 
the toe than upon the heele, shutting theirclaws before 
close: and commonly theystrike their gards (which are 
their dew clawes) upon the ground, the whichsway out- 
wards: and the sides of their hoofs do cut and pare 
the ground, the which our swine do not, for they 
spread and open their fore clawes leaving the ground 
between them: and they be commonly round and 
worne, leaning and staying more upon the heele, than 
upon the toe. Againe, they set not their hinder foote 
within their fore foote, and their gards fall straight 
upon the ground, and never shoyle or leane outwards : 
