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THE PIG. 
Pigs, with us, are not wild, but in Asia men hunt 
the Wild Boar. The Wild Boar has a long tusk in 
each jaw, and he will make a rush at the men when 
they get near him, and try to tear and rip them 
with his tusk. When he is in a rage he will foam 
at his jaws, and dash up and down as fast as he 
can run, and the hair on his neck will rise up like 
a mane. Men like very much to go out to hunt the 
Wild Boar, but they may get hurt if they do not 
take care. You see he is not at all like our dull 
Pigs who will not get out of the way even if we 
give them a hard push, and who eat and cram as 
long as they can get food, and even till they are so 
fat that they can not walk. 
A herd of Wild Hogs will do much harm if they 
get into a rice bed ; rice will only grow in mud, 
and Pigs are very fond of mud, and like to rout in 
it, and to lie and roll in it, and they will pull up 
the rice by the root, and eat it, so that men have to 
be set to look out for them, and keep them off the 
rice beds. 
