THE HOG KIND. 



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the tusks grow much smaller, and are scarce 

 seen to appear without the lips ; but what is 

 still more remarkable, is, that in a boar, if the 

 tusks by any accident or design be broke away, 

 the animal abates of its fierceness and vencry, 



and it produces nearly the same effect upon its 

 constitution, as if castration had actually taken 

 place.' 



Lisle's Husbandry, vol. ii. p. 329- 



