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serve onely to whet the other two lowest : but with 

 those lower tuskes, they stryke marvellously and kill 

 oftentimes." 



There is a difference between the wild and tame 

 swine which, as may be supposed, did not escape 

 the notice of huntsmen in olden times, when the 

 pursuits of the chase alone engrossed their most 

 immediate attention. The information which they 

 have left us on this and many other points is all 

 the more valuable, as we have no longer the means 

 of forming those comparisons which, from the expe- 

 rience of their lives, they were able to record with 

 accuracy. 



" The difference between the wild swine and our 

 hogs," says Turbervile, " is great, and that in sundry 

 respects. First they are commonly blacke, or grisled, or 

 streaked with blacke, whereas ours[are white, sanded, 

 and of all coloures. Therewithal the wyld sywne in 

 their gate do always set the hinder foote within the 

 fore foote, or very neare, and stay themselves more upon 

 the toe than upon the heele, shutting theirclaws before 

 close : and commonly they strike their gards (which are 

 their dew clawes) upon the ground, the which sway out- 

 wards : and the sides of their hoofs do cut and pare 

 the ground, the which our swine do not, for they 

 spread and open their fore clawes leaving the ground 

 between them : and they be commonly round and 

 worne, leaning and staying more upon the heele, than 

 upon the toe. Againe, they set not their hinder foote 

 within their fore foote, and their gards fall straight 

 upon the ground, and never shoyle or leane outwards : 



