COMMON HOG. 46l 



a young Boar of three years old is difficult to be 

 att^acked ; because he runs very far without stop- 

 ping ; but the old Boars do not run far, allow the 

 dogs to come near, and often stop to repel them. 

 During the day the Boar commonly keeps in his 

 soil, which is in the most sequestered part of the 

 woods, and comes out by night in quest of food; 

 and in summer, when the grain is ripe, it is easy 

 to surprise him among the cultivated fields, which 

 he frequents every night/' 



As the Wild Boar advances in age, after the pe- 

 riod of three or four years, he becomes less dange- 

 rous, on account of the growth of his tusks, which 

 turn up, or make so large a curve or flexure, as 

 often rather to impede than assist his intentions of 

 wounding \Mi them. 



According to the French newspapers for the 

 3^ear 1787, a Vv'ild Boar of most extraordinary 

 size was killed in the neighbourhood of Cognac 

 in Angoinnois, which had escaped a great many 

 times from the hunters, had received many gun- 

 shot wounds, and had cost the lives of several 

 dogs and men each time of attacking him. When 

 this animal was at length slain, several bullets 

 are said to have been found between his skin and 

 flesh. Mons. Sonnini, who details this anecdote 

 from the public papers observes, that if the 

 relation had not been given by hunters of distin- 

 guished order, and too v/ell acquainted with these 



* Journal de Saintonge j Journal de Bouillon, seconde quinzainc 

 d'Avril, 1787, &c. 8cc. 



