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think of stopping a crow as those hogs. 

 They will go to a distance from a fence, 

 take a run, and leap through the rails, three 

 or four feet from the ground, turning them- 

 selves sidewise. These hogs suffer such 

 hardships as no other animal could endure. 

 It is customary to keep them in the woods 

 all winter, as there is no thrashing or fold- 

 yards ; and they must live on the roots of 

 trees, or something of that sort ; hut they 

 are poor beyond any creature that I ever 

 saw. That is probably the cause why the 

 American pork is so fine. They are some- 

 thing like the forest-sheep. I am not cer- 

 tain, with American keeping and treatment, 

 if they be not the best: for I never saw any 

 animal live without food, except this ; and 

 I am pretty sure they nearly do that. When 

 they are fed, the flesh may well be sweet : 

 it is all young, though the pig be ten years 

 old ; and, like pigs in general, they only 

 act as a conveyance, to carry corn to market. 

 The sort of hogs I left in America pay the 

 most for food I ever saw. I fed some half- 

 bred ones, at six months old, that weighed 



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