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all blowes upon his tuskes or thereabouts. But let 

 them lift up their hands high and strike right 

 downe; and let them beware that they strike not 

 towards their horses but that other way ; for on that 

 side that a Bore feeleth himself hurte, he turneth head 

 strayght waies whereby he might the sooner hurt or 

 kill their horses if they stroke towards them. And 

 if they lie in the plaine, then let them cast a cloake 

 about their horses, and they maye the better ride 

 about the Bore, and strike at him as they passe ; 

 but stay not long in a place. 



"It is a certaine thing experimented and found 

 true, that if you hang belles upon collers about your 

 houndes necks, a Bore will not so soone strike at 

 them, but flee endwaies before them, and seldome 

 stand at bay." 



In France, where the sport of Wild Boar hunting is 

 still kept up in the olden style, different names are 

 given to the animal at different ages. "While quite 

 young, when it is striped, it is called la livree, and 

 marcassin ; in the autumn, when the stripes disap- 

 pear and it assumes a reddish brown colour, it is 

 termed bele rousse and bile de compagnie (from 

 keeping with the herd), names which are retained 

 until two years old ; from two to three years old it 

 is called ragot, a word the etymology of which is 

 unknown ; *• from three to four, sanglier a son tiers-an, 

 or simply tiers an ; from four to five, quartanier ; 

 from five to six, quintanier and vieux sanglier. After 

 this age, when both sexes become quite grey, the ears, 



* See Bollancl, " Fatme Populaira de la France," p. 75. 



