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and they do beat down and soile the ground and cut 

 it not. Also the soale of their feete is fleshy, and 

 maketh no plaine print upon the ground as the wild 

 swine do. There is likewise great difference in their 

 rowtings : for a wild swine doth rowt deeper, because 

 his snout is longer : and when they come into corne 

 fieldes they follow a furrow, rowting and worming all 

 along by some baike untill they come to the end. But 

 tame swine rowte here and there all about the field, 

 and never folio we their rowting as the wild swine do. 

 Likewise you may know them by the difference in 

 their feedings in corne growne : for the wild swine 

 beare downe the corne rounde abovit them, in one 

 certaine place, and tame swine feede scattering here 

 and there." 



" The Wild Boar," says Turbervile, " has only one 

 litter in the year." 



In regard to the mode of hunting this animal as 

 formerly practised in England, the plan seems to 

 have been to follow it with relays of hounds until 

 brought to bay, and then to rush in on foot or on 

 horseback, and despatch it with sword or spear. 

 Turbervile says : — " If he stand at bay, the hunts- 

 men must ryde in unto him as secretly as they can 

 without much noyse, and when they be neare him, 

 let them cast round about the place where he 

 standeth, and run upon him all at once, and it shall 

 be hard if they give him not one sketch with a 

 sword or some wound with a bore-speare : and let 

 them not strike lowe, for then they shall commonly 

 "hit him on the snoute, because he watcheth to take 



