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amoimt of training. It becomes fond of its master, follows him, 

 and likes to be caressed. It, bowever, retains mucb of the rougb- 

 ness and bluntness wbicb are natural to its race. For a bit of 

 bread or some otber little thing they are fond of. Wild Boars, 

 when tamed, have been known to perform certaia exercises, to 

 assume different attitudes, and play various tricks. The in- 

 habitants of the Place Saint-Sulpice, at Paris, remember a tame 

 Boar that was kept in the courtyard of a man who let out vans 

 for removing furniture, and which was almost as quiet and docile 

 as a domestic animal. 



The Wild Boar is found in those parts of France where there 

 are still large forests. In Englaad it has been long extinct. It 

 was common in the environs of London in the twelfth century. 

 In many parts of the continent of Europe, in the north and the 

 east of Asia, it is abundant, and in many islands in the Mediter- 

 ranean, also in Algeria, and Egypt. 



Without speaking further here of the species of Wild Boars 

 peculiar to India and its islands, or of those which belong to 

 Africa, we will pass on at once to the Domestic Pig, which is 

 nothing but a Wild Boar which by a long servitude has been 

 modified both physically and morally. 



There has been much controversy as to the origin of the 

 Domestic Pig. On the one hand, it has been said that they 

 sprang from Wild Boars that had been domesticated, and that 

 they had, from generation to generation, gradually assumed the 

 characteristics of the domestic animal. It has also been asserted, 

 that Domestic Pigs, having been allowed to return to their wild 

 life, have after a certain time resumed the form, the manners, 

 and the habits of the Wild Boar. 



The male Pig is called a Boar, and the female a Sow. Soon after 

 their birth, the young ones are called Sucking Pigs and Porkers. 

 Hog is the general appellation of the adults. 



The Pig has a large, quadrangular, pyramidical head, more or 

 less elongated, and truncated obliquely at its extremity. The 

 eyes are small. The ears are placed high up on the head,^ and 

 vary in form and direction according to the breed of the animal. 

 The mouth is very wide. The canine teeth of the male are curved 

 and projecting. The body is more or less long, broad, rounded, 

 and covered with bristles, of which the quantity, the length, and 



