O FOEEST CREATURES. 



in 1629, in presence of Landgrave Gfeorge and his 

 attendants. The game being driven to a certain spot, a 

 boar and a stag appeared suddenly at opposite ends of 

 the ground. At sight of each other, they both rushed 

 to the attack ; and such was their vehemence that both 

 fell dead ; the boar having been mortally goaded by 

 the antlers of the stag, and the boar having ripped up 

 the other's body with his tusks.* And when Landgrave 

 Lems v., in 1597, wrote to his uncle at Marburg to beg 

 for some dogs, the latter answered that he had himself 

 but few at the moment, nearly all of his having been 

 wounded in the boar-hunts of the preceding season.* 

 It was from such facts as these, the saying became pro- 

 verbial, " He who wants boars' heads, must risk hounds' 

 heads to get them." 



As recently as 1845, on the 7th of November, late in 

 the evening, one of the watchers on the skirts of a wood 

 met a boar of unusual size, and at once set his doos 

 upon him. But being dark he was not able to help 

 them in their struggle, and two were killed outright, 

 and five others mortally wounded. The boar then 

 attacked the man, ripping up his thigh from end to 

 end. He threw him down, and the courage of a surviv- 

 ing dog alone saved him from further injury. Seizing 

 the boar by the snout, he dragged him awa}^, and pulled 

 him by degrees into some water close by ; and though 

 * Landau. Beitnige zm- Gescliichte der Jagd in Deutsclilaud. 



