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leads them, with a grunt as a signal for retreat, and she must he far from 
the spot where danger first menaced, and have reached the shelter of some 
protecting thicket, before she will stop or let her little ones stray at will. 
“ There is no peril that will daunt her when her young need defence. Her 
courage is then quite heroic. No matter who the spoiler be, whether man 
well-armed or brute of superior force, she flies at him witli a fury which 
it is difficult to withstand. Nor will steady resistance or desperate wound 
keep her back or make her retreat. Not till her child be safe, or till she 
herself sink before her foe, does the combat end. For, as to driving her 
back, you might as well think of making a robbed lioness turn, as to 
expect her to cede, while life remains. And, as was said above, her bite is 
terrible ; she tears out pieces of flesh, and tramples on her fallen adversary. 
She returns also to the attack, and does not wound in passing, and then 
go on, as the male animal will do. Hence, with her, it is useless to step 
aside, or get behind a tree, as you would, if the boar were to rush upon 
you ; she is not to be evaded thus. When he attacks, and there is no other 
help, you may fling yourself flat on the ground, and you are safe, for the 
boar cannot wound downwards, but rips upwards only, as he passes and 
goes on. But she, were you to try such a stratagem with her, would turn 
it to her advantage and your sorrow ; for you would never get up again 
whole and sound ; may be, not rise at all. Yet the he and the she-boar, 
if let alone, will harm no one ; on the contrary, they flee at man’s 
approach.” 
The work contains matter for a lengthened review, which, however, our 
space will not afford ; and those who are interested in the account of the 
Eagle, and the hairbreadth escapes of Eagle-hunters ; or in that of the 
Boar, Roe, Deer, Cock of the Woods, &c., must purchase the volume, which 
they will find to be written is a very pleasing style, and illustrated with 
tolerably good wood-engravings and lithographs. The scientific informa- 
tion is meagre ; indeed, the author states in his preface that it is wholly 
without scientific pretension. 
