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er. Then after looking at each other, as if to say, Is it 
time ? we took steady aim, put our fingers on the triggers, 
and bang! bang! bang! our three guns went off at the 
same time, three wild boars biting the ground, and the 
others giving tremendous leaps. Four of them, crazy 
with fright, came rushing along, leaping over the trunk 
of the trees behind which we were hidden, and right 
above our heads. My goodness! if they had come down 
upon us they would *have completely smashed us. I 
turned round, fired my second shot, and bagged another. 
“Four wild boars are killed!” we shouted with frantic 
joy ! 
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KILLING FOUR WILD BOARS, 
What splendid animals two of them were! How big! 
the wild boars of the black forest in Germany could not 
have compared with them. 
This wild boar is a new species, and I have called it Po- 
tamocherus albifrons: that is to say, white-fronted. 
