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ing or wallowing in the soft mud, and sleeping oi 

 mediating in the heat of the day. They manifest 

 a loyalty to each other in times of danger that 

 borders on recklessness. If the alarm-squeal is 

 sent out by a member of a band, the whole band 

 will risk their very lives, if necessary, to help the 

 one in distress. They attack their enemies with 

 raised bristles and hair-raising " whoof s. ' ' When 

 a mother and her young are surprised by sudden 

 danger, the little ones, by instinct, drop flat and 

 motionless in their tracks, while the mother pro- 

 ceeds to handle the situation mth unflinching- 

 courage. 



And anyone who has ever associated with hogs 

 knows how faithfully the domestic breeds have 

 held on to the instincts of their ancestors, even 

 tho these instincts have been largely useless 

 since they have lived in a pen. It was often a 

 wonder of my boj^hood to see little young pigs 

 suddenly become inanimate — to see them drop flat 

 on the ground and lie there as motionless as if 

 they had been pasted there — when some event 

 supposed to have danger in it came along. 



The bristles and war ''whoofs" of hogs are the 

 war-paint and war-whoops of men. Many animals 

 add to their chances of success on going into bat- 

 tle by making themselves look as alarming as pos- 

 sible. The dog growls and shows his teeth, the 

 bull bellows and paws the earth, the cat gets its 

 back up and ''spits," the goose hisses, and the go- 

 rilla yells and beats its breast with its fists. 



