COMMON HOG. 46l 



img Boar of three years old is difficult to be 

 KM! ; because lie runs very far without stop- 

 ping ; but the old Boars do not run far, allow the 

 dogs to come near, and often stop to iep< 1 them. 

 During the day the Boar commonly keeps in his 

 soil, \vhieh is in the most sequestered part of the 

 woods, and comes out by night in quest of food; 

 and in summer, when the grain is ripe, it is easy 

 to surprUe him among the cultivated lields, which 

 lie frtquents every night." 



As the Wild Boar advances in age, after the |>t - 

 riod of three or four years, he become 

 roiis, on account or' the growth of his tusk*, which 

 turn up, or make so large a curve or tit xure, as 

 often rather to impede than assist his intcntio; 

 wounding with them. 



According to the French newspaper for the 

 year 1787, a Wild Boar of most extraordinary 

 size was killed in the neighbourhood of ( Ognac 

 in .I/i-HHni<'i<.; which had escaped a great many 

 times from the hunters, had received many gun- 

 shot wounds, and had cost the lives of M -\ 

 dogs and men eaeli time of attacking him. When 

 this animal \sas at length slain, several bullets 

 aie said to have been found bctv.ctn bis skin and 

 flesh. MOIL. Numini, who details this aaiecdotc 

 from the public papers*, observes-, that if the 

 relation bad not been given by hunters of distin- 

 guished order, and too well acquamtid uith these 



* Journal de Saintonge ; Journal de Bouillon, i 

 d'Arril, 1787, kc. &c. 



