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NATURAL IlISTORY 



Qbout the head like pullets ; they also walk 

 without any parade, and hover chickens 

 like hens. Barrow-hogs have also small 

 tusks like sows. 



Thus far it is plain that the deprivation 

 of masculine vigour^\xi% a stop to the growth 

 of those parts or appendages that are 

 looked upon as its insignia. But the in- 

 genious Mr. Lisky in his book on husbandry, 

 carries it much farther ; for he says that 

 the loss of those insignia alone has some- 

 times a strange effect on the ability itself : 

 he had a boar so fierce and venereous, that 

 to prevent mischief, orders were given for 

 his tusks to be broken off. No sooner had 

 the be^st suffered this injury than his 

 powers forsook him, and he neglected 

 those females to whom before he was pasr 

 sionately attached, and from whom no 

 fences could restrain him. 



