Class I. HOG. 09 



Spey and Elgin. It has been there converted 

 into a beast of draught ; for I have been assured 

 by a minister of that country, eye witness to the 

 fact, that he had on his first coming into his 

 parish seen a cow, a sow, and two Trogues 

 (young horses) yoked together, and drawing a 

 plough in a light sandy soil, and that the sow 

 was the best drawer of the four. In Minorca 

 the ass and the hog are common help-mates, 

 and are yoked together in order to turn up the 

 land. 



The wild-boar was formerly a native of our 

 country, as appears from the laws of Howel 

 dda* who permitted his grand huntsman to 

 chace that animal from the middle of November 

 to the beginning of December. William the 

 Conqueror punished with the loss of their eyes, 

 those who were convicted of killing the wild- 

 boar, the stag, or the roebuck ;f and Fitz- 

 Stephen tells us, that the vast forest which in his 

 time grew on the north side of London, was the 

 retreat of stags, fallow-deer, wild-boars, and 

 bulls. Charles I. turned out wild-boars in the 

 New Forest, Hampshire, but they were destroy- 

 ed in the civil wars. 



* Leges JVallicos. 41. f Leges Saxon. 292. 



