108 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
all blowes upon his tuskes or thereabouts. But let 
them lift up their hands high and strike right 
downe; and let them beware that they strike not 
towards their horses but that other way ; for on that 
side that a Bore feeleth himself hurte, he turneth head 
strayght waies whereby he might the sooner hurt or 
kill their horses if they stroke towards them. And 
if they lie in the plaine, then let them cast a cloake 
about their horses, and they maye the better ride 
about the Bore, and strike at him as they passe ; 
but stay not long in a place. 
“Tt is a certaine thing experimented and found 
true, that if you hang belles upon collers about your 
houndes necks, a Bore will not so soone strike at 
them, but flee endwaies before them, and seldome 
stand at bay.” 
In France, where the sport of Wild Boar hunting is 
still kept up in the olden style, different names are 
given to the animal at different ages. While quite 
young, when it is striped, it is called la livrée, and 
marcassin ; in the autumn, when the stripes disap- 
pear and it assumes a reddish brown colour, it is 
termed Obéte rousse and béle de compagnie (from 
keeping with the- herd), names which are retained 
until two years old; from two to three years old it 
is called ragot, a word the etymology of which is 
unknown ;* from three to four, sanglier a son tiers-an, 
or simply tiers an; irom four to five, guartanier ; 
from five to six, guintanier and vieur sanglier. After 
this age, when both sexes become quite grey, the ears, 
* See Rolland, ‘‘ Faune Populaire de la France,” p. 75. 
