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fierce-looking monster, with tusks a foot long, to the little pig which 

 has not forgotten its mamma. Heaps, literal heaps, of these huge black 

 animals may be seen scattered over the market-place, and cart-loads 

 may be met passing through the street. Then, perhaps, the hares are 

 scarcely less extraordinary for their numbers, which amount to thou- 

 sands daily ; and they are carted away very systematically on poles, 

 about sixty or seventy being hung by the hind legs to one pole, and 

 the poles thus laid across the cart in rows, so that one cart-load con- 

 tains, perhaps, nearly a thousand hares. These vast numbers of wild 

 boars are obtained from the Imperial Thiergarten, an extensive en- 

 closure a few miles from Vienna, whose walls encircle a space of 

 country equalling the whole city and its suburbs. In this Royal park 

 these fierce animals roam about unrestrained, and woe to the un- 

 wary trespasser who finds himself matched against their ruthless 

 tusks. The deer and hares are found abundantly on all sides of 

 Vienna. 



Among these hecatombs it is not uncommon to see several chamois. 

 They are by no means so common as roes ; but still it is rarely the 

 case that there are not at least two or three chamois hanging up in 

 each shop on a market day. They are brought from the mountains 

 of Steyermark, in Upper Austria, and would appear to be in these 

 localities far more numerous than among the Alps, if I may judge 

 from the few traces of them one sees or even hears of in a journey 

 through their wildest and most elevated regions. 



Besides these animals, a beaver {Castor jibe?-) is sometimes exhi- 

 bited, taken in the Danubian meadows. This, however, is a rare 

 occurrence. It is to be recollected that this beaver is probably spe- 

 cifically distinct from that of North America. 



What becomes of such a vast quantity of wild animals I often 

 puzzled myself to imagine. Their flesh is of course largely con- 

 sumed in Vienna; but while roe and chamois are to be had at a tole- 

 rably cheap rate, wild boar is always charged high, for some unknown 

 reason ; but if any one is disposed to take my gastronomic taste for 

 anything, he may rest assured that roebuck (Austrian roebuck) is by 

 no means equal to our fallow venison, chamois is far inferior to South- 

 down, and wild boar is but a poor substitute for an English porker. 



Fallow deer are unknown here, and this beautiful ornament of our 

 English parks is replaced by roe. These animals are kept in large 

 numbers, and it is something striking to come suddenly, in the depth 

 of the wood, upon a herd (if I may be allowed the expression with 

 respect to these deer) of perhaps a hundred of them. They are 



