1 62 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE COMMON BOAR. 



(Sits Scrofa, Linn. Lc Cochon, BuiF.) 



Is, of all other domestic quadrupeds, the most 

 filthy and impure. Its form is clumsy and disgust- 

 ing, and its appetite gluttonous and excessive. In 

 no instance has nature more conspicuously shewn 

 her economy than in this race of animals, whose 

 stomachs are fitted to receive nutriment from a 

 variety of things that would be otherwise wasted : 

 the refuse of the field, the garden, the barn, or the 

 kitchen, affords them a luxuriant repast. 



Useless during life, and only valuable when 

 deprived of it, this animal has been sometimes 

 compared to a miser, whose hoarded treasures are 

 of little value till death has deprived them of their 

 rapacious owner. 



The parts of this anmial are finely adapted to its 

 mode of living. Nature has given it a form more 

 prone than that of other animals. Its neck is 

 strong and brawny ; its snout is long and callous, 

 well calculated for the purpose of turning up the 



