T^6 The booke of Hunting 



they come into corne fieldes they follow a furrow, rowting and 

 worming all alongft by fome baike, vntill they come to the end. 

 But tame fwyne rowte heere and there all about the fielde, and 

 neuer followe their rowting as the wylde fwyne do. Likewife 

 you may know them by the difference of their feedings in corne 

 growne : for the wilde fwyne beare downe the corne rounde 

 about them in one certaine place, and tame fwyne feede fcatte- 

 ring here and there. 



The difference betweene the male, and 

 the female. Chap, yd 



ALthough fome hunters holde opinion, that there is small 

 j^^iudgement to be taken of the difference betweene male 

 and female, being yong fwyne that yet do keepe the founder : 

 Yet haue I obferued diuers differences in my time, whereby 

 you may knowe the male from the female, yea were they but 

 pigges of a yeare olde following the dammes, whereof I will 

 fhewe myne opinion in this fort. The male pigges following 

 the damme, doe commonly fcatter further abroade than the fe- 

 males doe, and will nouzle and turne vp the grounde tenne or 

 twelue paces further of from their dammes than the females do, 

 and that (thinke I) is bycaufe they are hardier than the females 

 are, for they followe the damme as clofe as they can, and dare 

 not fcatter abroade as the males do. You may iudge them alfo 

 by their gate, for euerie male pigge or hogge, goeth broder with 

 his hinder legges than the female do: and commonly they fet the 

 tracke or print of the hinder foote, vpon the outer fide of the print 

 of the forefoote, by reafon of the thicknelle that he beares betwene 

 the thyghes more than the female, for the female is leaner be- 

 twene the legges, and goeth clofer in hir gate. You may alfo 

 knowe them by their gardes, for the male hath them commonly 

 greater, and nearer to his heele than the female, whiche beareth 

 them high, lliort, and loofe, one being neare vnto an other, and 

 therefore llie ftriketh not hir gardes on the grounde fo often as 

 the male doth, yea though flie doe, the print of them is but fmall 



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