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certain attitudes, upon being shewn some favourite 

 food. 



The Wild Boar has, in its wild state, been 

 always looked upon as an object of terror, and, 

 in confinement, as an animal of loathsome and 

 dirty habits, and associated with what is beastly 

 and disgusting. When hunted or enraged, the 

 Boar becomes a most ferocious animal, defending 

 himself to the utmost; but in confinement, the 

 Sow seems conscious of good treatment, and 

 will follow the individual who thus well uses it. 

 For their dirty habits, they are perhaps somewhat 

 indebted to the carelessness of their masters, and 

 the limited and dirty space in which they are 

 kept ; for a Sow, in an ill kept sty, is, in reality, 

 the perfect image of a " dirty beast ; w but when 

 at large, excepting their propensity to wallow, 

 which is common to all the Pachydermes, and a 

 provision in warm climates to protect from insects 

 a hide naturally bare of hair, we have nothing 

 more unseemly to separate them from their allies. 

 The sleeping lair of the Wild Hog, is generally 

 among some dry and warm herbage ; and a supply 

 of fresh and clean litter causes expressive com- 

 fort to the animal in his sty ; and in both cases, 

 when the cover is abundant, it is made to conceal 

 and skreen the body from heat or cold. 



We have represented on the accompanying 

 plate, 



