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more specialised system advisable when wild-boar only are 
the objective. For whereas the aboriginal stage seeking a 
“lie-up” wherein to pass the daylight hours was satisfied 
by any sequestered spot that afforded shelter and shade from 
the sun, that was never the case with the jungle-loving boar. 
To the stag strong jungle and heavy brushwood were ever 
abhorrent, handicapping his light build and branching antlers. 
Clumps of tall reed-grass or three-foot rushes, a patch of cistus 
or rosemary, amply fulfilled his diurnal ideals and requirements. 
Nowadays, it is true, the expanded sense of danger, the increasing 
pressure of modern life—even cervine life—force him to select 
strongholds which offer creater security though less convenience. 
The wild-boar, on the reverse, with lower carriage and pachy- 
dermatous hide, instinctively seeks the very heaviest jungle 
within his radius—the more densely briar-matted and impene- 
trable the better he loves it. 
Many such holts—some of them may be but a few yards in 
extent—are necessarily passed untried both hy dogs and meu 
when engaged in “driving ” extended areas, sometimes miles 
of consecutive forest and covert. The somnolent boar hears 
the passing tumult, lifts a erisly head, grunts an angry soliloquy, 
and goes to sleep again, secure. Another day you have returned 
expressly to pay specific attention to him. In brief space 
he has diagnosed the difference in attack. Instantly that boar 
is alert, ready to repel or scatter the enemy, come who may, on 
two lews or four. 
HOOPOES 
On the lawn at Jerez, Mareh 19, 1910. 
