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converting witli his friends in fliort, pithy, 

 interrupted fentences, which are no doubt, 

 exprelfive of his enjoyments, and of his focial 

 feelings. 



Befides the hogs, thus led out in the maft- 

 feafon to fatten, there are others, the pro- 

 perty of foreft-keepers, which fpend the 

 whole year in fuch focieties. After the maft- 

 feafon is over, the indigenous foreil-hog de- 

 pends chiefly for his livelihood on the roots 

 of fern : and he would find this food very 

 nourishing, if he could have it in abundance. 

 But he is obliged to procure it by fo labourious 

 an operation, that his meals are rarely ac- 

 companied with fatiety. He continues how- 

 ever, by great induftry, to obtain a tolerable 

 fubfiftence through the winter, except in 

 frofty weather, when the ground refills his 

 delving fnout : then he mufl perifh, if he 

 do not in fome degree experience his matter's 

 care. As fpring advances, freih grafies, and 

 falads of different kinds, add a variety to his 

 bill of fare ; and as fummer comes on, he finds 

 juicy berries, and grateful feeds, on which he 

 lives plentifully, till autumn returns, and 

 brings with it the extreme of abundance. 



i 3 Befides 



