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application and the force of the moral. But upon one day of more than ordinary appetite, man 

 eyed with complacence the sleek rotundity of a fat hog, and the longer he gazed the more ardent 

 waxed his desire of making a mess of the unsuspecting animal. Invention — for the author did 

 not call in the aid of the devil to bear the burden of the crime, if crime it was — set about finding; 

 the means of making a meal of the hog. The bow was made and strung, the arrow was pointed ; 

 the bow was bent, the arrow set on the string — and, 



" He twangs the bow, the hissing arrow flies, 

 And darkness seals the gentle porker's eyes." 



Once tasting the luscious flesh of the hog, man could no longer be contented with the beech-mast 

 and the acorns, but soon began to "kill and eat" the whole of living nature around him. Nor 

 was he content till he had numbered the flesh of his own race among the dainties of his board. 

 As he became more refined, the disposition to eat his fellow-men became weaker; but the killing 

 propensity has continued, and the slaughter of mankind, so that it is carried on upon a scale of 

 sufficient grandeur, is above all others the work for which man is especially "covered with glory." 

 Charles Lamb pays quite as great a compliment to pork, and more especially to roast pig, in 

 his ingenious and humorous account of the manner in which this delicious viand was first discov- 

 ered. He represents a Chinese youth, by the name of Bobo, as perceiving a most exciting odor 

 issuing from the blazing ruins of his father's cottage. This he finds to proceed from one of 

 the pigs, a whole litter of which had been roasted in the conflagration. Strongly tempted, he 

 ventured to taste, and was entranced at the result. He now devoured all the rest of the roasted 

 pigs, and finally set fire to a great number of cottages, so as to enjoy the repast of the young 

 porkers baked in the blaze. At last his father discovered the secret, and ere long it was commu- 

 nicated to the world, and thus for ages mankind have enjoyed the most delicious of viands — roast 



The Bene, Sus Pajniensis, is very small, being but three feet long when full-grown, and is of a 

 delicate and graceful form. The bristles are thick and short, yellowish-brown above, and white 

 annulated with black below. It is found wild in the forests of New Guinea; the Papuans prize 

 its flesh highly; they kill it for food and catch the young ones, which they reduce to partial do- 

 mestication. It seems to be intermediate between the peccary and the true hog. 



THE GUINEA HOG. 



The Guinea Hog or Bosch-Vark, Sus Guineensis or Choiropotamus pictus,\& found in Guinea, 

 and is so fond of the water as to be called The River P'kj. It is of the size of a common hog; has 

 long, narrow, straight ears, with a pencil of hair at the tips. It is of a lively cinnamon-red, with 

 white patches above and below the eyes, and with longitudinal bands of white on the back. The 



