4 FOREST CREATURES. 



If enraged, the further you keep from him the better. 

 ^Mien wounded and unable to move away, he will snort 

 with fury ; and if he cannot vent it upon you or some 

 living thing, will dash his tusks in the pine stem next 

 him ; and he has been known to do so with such energy 

 that he could not outdraw them, so deeply had they 

 entered. For the tusks are pointed, and often very 

 sharp, the upper edge being whetted by coming in col- 

 lision with the smaller tusk above, into the bend of which 

 the lower one fits. 



In the older boars they are generally of good length, 

 and the white ivory-like weapon curling over the upper 



SKULL A>T) JA-WS. 



jaw distinguishes the sex at once, and gives the physi- 

 ognomy sometimes an odd look. The front part, that 

 meant for offensive action, is solid like the tusk of the 



