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India ; the latter are taller, more actively bright, and, in fact, 

 far handsomer in form, and more thoroughbred in general 

 appearance. Again, the heads of the Indian variety are less 

 rugged and grisly, and their legs and " trotters " finer and 

 more shapely. Lastly, the curly or twisted tails adopted by 

 artists as the appendages of the European boars are never 

 seen in India, where we have only the straight, tapering 

 pattern ending in a tuft of bristles. I may add, also, that I 

 have very rarely seen the tusks correctly drawn ; those of the 

 upper jaw, on which the long cutting teeth of the lower are 

 sharpened and kept in serviceable condition, appear to be 

 the stumbling-block in particular on which artists break 

 their shins. I should, by a comparison of the forms of the 

 European boars, as depicted on canvas, with those seen by me, 

 judge the latter to be the more formidable animals by reason 

 of their superior height, fleetness, and activity, the two 

 varieties bearing the same relation to each other as do the 

 Suffolk punches and thoroughbred hunters of England. 



