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Mr. Wynne said that he quite concurred in the remarks of his 
brother magistrate, and he must add, that the conduct of the 
Contractor, who permitted such miserable animals to be employed, 
was most disgraceful, and deserving of severe censure. He much 
regretted that the law did not enable the society to punish him. 
The Contractor expressed his regret that such serious cause of 
complaint should have existed ; and said he would pay the penal- 
ties and costs, and take care to guard against complaint in future. 
He paid the sum of £7. .10s. 
Mr. Thomas requested the magistrates to name some charity 
to pay the moiety of the penalties to, who, having conferred with 
Mr. Thomas, directed £3 to be paid to the Abergele National 
School, and the remainder, as directed by the Act of Parliament, 
to the overseers of the poor of the parish in which the offence was 
committed. 
THE HOG. 
GREEDY as the hog appears to be, he is by no means destitute 
of natural intelligence. Mr. Wilson says that the German hunts- 
men in approaching the wild boar will endeavour to keep to the 
leeward, lest he should scent their approach, and be too easily 
alarmed. His sense of sight, if not obtuse, is rather limited in its 
range, but his hearing is accurate and extensive. When he is 
intentionally trained, he will often acquire accomplishments far 
superior to his usual habits, and, according to circumstances, be- 
come either, like the “ learned pig,” an adept in alphabetical lore, 
or, like “ the sporting pig,” a perfect Nimrod in the more active 
amusements of the field. 
Toomer, the gamekeeper of Sir H. P. St. John Mildmay, broke 
in a black sow to find game, back, and stand to her point nearly 
as steadily as a well-bred dog. This sow was a thin long-legged 
animal, one of the ugliest of the new forest breed, and when very 
young, manifested a great partiality to some pointer puppies, 
then under the care of the keeper at Broomy Lodge. It often 
played and fed with them, and it occurred one day to Toomer, 
that, as he had broken in many an obstinate dog, he might succeed 
in breaking in a pig. The little animal willingly cantered along 
with him to a considerable distance from home, and he enticed her 
still farther by means of a kind of pudding of barley-meal, which 
he carried in one of his pockets. His other pocket was filled with 
stones to throw at the pig whenever she misbehaved, as she was 
too frolicsome to allow herself to be caught and corrected like 
the dogs. 
