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pigs could be enticed from their hold. On another 

 menace from the dogs, they took up a second similar 

 position, and firmly maintained a second onset of 

 their assailants with the same successful resistance. 

 No badger in his tub could have been more stout- 

 hearted, resolute, and courageous, than these three 

 mountain hogs in their corner. 



" My father used to relate an encounter he once 

 had with a full-grown wild boar. He had entered a 

 forest where occasional rocks bounding the right 

 hand and the left gave the character of a defile to a 

 mountain pass. A hog traversing the glen, no sooner 

 found himself, when on the road, encountering an 

 enemy than he faced round, and assumed an attitude 

 of opposition to all further attempts to approach 

 him. There being no dread of anything in the rear, 

 and all that he apprehended of danger being befo>re 

 him, he stood ready to strike with his tusks ; and he 

 continued this sort of threat, whenever any endeavour 

 was made to advance upon him, for a full half hour. 

 No menace could move him from this stand till he 

 heard footsteps from behind, when his position being 

 no longer secure, he crossed the road into the woods 

 at full speed, and left an undisputed pathway to the 

 travellers upward and downward." 



In a recent communication, my friend thus returns 

 to the subject. — " 8^/i February, 1851. I have 

 learned some new facts respecting hog-hunting. The 

 present letter, you will perceive, covers some addi- 

 tional notes to those already sent you on that subject. 

 They may be said to embrace the commercial details 

 of our Forest Swine, with some notices of Maroon 



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