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and they do beat down and soile the ground and cut 
it not. Also the soale of their feete is fleshy, and 
maketh no plaine print upon the ground as the wild 
swine do. There is likewise great difference in their 
rowtings : for a wild swine doth rowt deeper, because 
his snout is longer: and when they come into corne 
fieldes they follow a furrow, rowting and worming all 
along by some balke untill they come to the end. But 
tame swine rowte here and there all about the field, 
and never followe their rowting as the wild swine do. 
Likewise you may know them by the difference in 
their feedings in corne growne : for the wild swine 
beare downe the corne rounde about them, in one 
certaine place, and tame swine feede scattering here 
and. there.” 
“The Wild Boar,” says Turbervile, “ has only one 
litter in the year.” 
In regard to the mode of hunting this animal as 
formerly practised in England, the plan seems to 
have been to follow it with relays of hounds until 
brought to bay, and then to rush in on foot or on 
horseback, and despatch it with sword or spear. 
Turbervile says :—‘‘If he stand at bay, the hunts- 
men must ryde in unto him as secretly as they can 
without much noyse, and when they be neare him, 
let them cast round about the place where he 
standeth, and run upon him all at once, and it shall 
be hard if they give him not one skotch with a 
sword or some wound with a bore-speare: and let 
them not strike lowe, for then they shall commonly 
hit him on the snoute, because he watcheth to take 
