and endeth about the beginning of December^ at which 

 time they go a brimming. A Boar will connmonly abide 

 the bay before he goes out of his den s and he lies raoU 

 commonly in the ftrongcil holds of thorns and thick 

 bufhes. 



If it fo chance that there is a founder of them toge- 

 ther, then if any break founder, the xe(t will run that 

 way : and if you hunt a Boar from a thick and itrong 

 covert, he will not fail to go back by the fame way he 

 came thither : and when he is rear'd he never ftays, but 

 flies continually till he comes to the place where he was 

 farrow'd and brought up. This Mr. Turbervile obfer- 

 ved himfelf when he was in Frances attefting hefaw a 

 Boar hunted from a thicket, which returned the fame 

 way he came to the place of his farrowing, which was 

 dillant feven French leagues. And this was performed 

 by the track of his feet. 



If he be hunted in a foreft or hold where he was 

 bred, he will hardly be forced out of it. Sometimes he 

 will take head, and feem to go out, and will draw to 

 the outfides of the wood i but it is onely to hearken on 

 every iide : and if he hear the noife of the hounds, 

 then will he return , and will not be compell'd to 

 go that way till night. But having broken out of a 

 forel^ arid taken head end-ways, he will not be put out 

 of his way either by man, dog, voice, blowing, or any 

 thing. 



A Boar, efpecially a great one, will not cry when 

 you kill him : The fows and young fwine will fome- 

 times. 



Terms to be ufed in Boit-Hmting, 



If it (hould be demanded what you will call a Boar 



of three years old » you may anfwer , He is a young 



Boar which hath lately left the founder. An old Boar 



K 2 yoti 



