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docile animal. The only difficulty is, to 

 make your meanings, when they are fair, 

 and friendly, intelligible to him. Effed this, 

 and you may lead him with a flraw. 



Nor is he without his focial feelings, when 

 he is at liberty to indulge them. In thefe 

 foreft-migrations, it is commonly obferved, 

 that of whatever number the herd confifts, 

 they generally feparate, in their daily excur- 

 lions, into fuch little knots, and focieties, 

 as have formerly had habits of intimacy 

 together i and in thefe friendly groups they 

 range the foreft; returning home at night, 

 in different parties, fome earlier, and fome 

 later, as they have been more or lefs fortunate 

 in the purfuits of the day. 



It founds oddly to affirm the life of a hog 

 to be enviable ; and yet there is fomething 

 uncommonly plealing in the lives of thefe 

 emigrants — fomething at leaft more defireable, 

 than is to be found in the life of a hog 

 Epicii?'i de grege. They feem themfelves alfo 

 to enjoy their mode of life. You fee them 

 perfedly happy, going about at their eafe, 

 and converling with each other in fliort, 

 pithy, interrupted fentences, which are no 



doubt. 



