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to furnish annually one bear to the King and six dogs 

 to bait it with, and Mr. Lydekker considers that these 

 were possibly native-bred animals. The story of the 

 wolf is admirably told. Among other records quoted 

 is one that all the deer were killed by wolves in Farley 

 Park, in Worcestershire, in the reign of Edward II.; 

 and that a certain Mr. Jonathan Grubb, who was born 

 in 1808, informed Mr. Harting in a letter that his 

 grandmother was born in 1731, and that she remem- 

 bered her uncle telling her how, in County Kildare, his 

 brother came home on horseback pursued by a pack of 

 wolves, which overtook him and kept leaping on to the 

 hindquarters of his horse until he reached the door. 

 The wild boar outlived the wolf in England. There 

 is a reference to wild boars in Suffolk in the house 

 hold accounts kept at Hengrave Hall, in Suffolk, in 

 the reign of Henry VIII., and under Elizabeth they 

 remained, together with the half- wild cattle, at Earl 

 Ferrers's castle at Chartley in Staffordshire, in Needwood 

 Forest. We may add that in Fleming's translation of 

 Caius's book on English dogs, written for Gesner, it is 

 mentioned that the ban-dog is ' serviceable to drive 

 wilde and tame swyne out of medows, pastures, glebe- 

 landes, and places planted with fruit/ So wild boars 

 were plentiful enough to do mischief in the middle of 

 the sixteenth century. 



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