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A COUNTRY READER. 



we so often admire in well-kept styes and 

 piggeries, and at agricultural shows, when these 

 domestic pigs are reasonably fattened, and not 

 fattened out of all shape and use. 



WILD BOAR. 



For purposes of mutual defence, these wild 

 pigs lived in herds, so that if one pig of the 

 herd was attacked his head-splitting squeals 

 would soon call his fellow pigs to his defence. 



That a pig's squeals are not only cries of 

 fright, but cries for assistance, you can prove for 

 yourself by trying to hold a pig by force in your 

 arms. His overpowering squeals will cause all 

 other pigs within hearing to leave off feeding 

 and sleeping, and will arouse them to excite- 

 ment, and will cause them to collect in a body, 



