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bush or tree, and makes a most vigorous resistance. Those 
hounds which approach too closely are frequently ripped up. 
But there is always found, in a well-trained pack, some intelligent 
and knowing member, which keeps baying the game at a safe 
distance, and confuses the boar with its ferocious barking until 
a favourable moment occurs, when, with a bound, it seizes the 
game at its weak point — the ear. The furious animal is then 
what is called coiffe. It has lost all power, and is conquered. A 
Fig. 39. — Wild Boar at bay. 
bullet from one of the sportsmen or a blow from a cutlass soon 
after puts an end to its existence. 
Firing upon it as it leaves cover, driven out by strong dogs, is 
the method generally adopted for hunting the Wild Boar in 
France and Germany. In other lands the sportsmen secrete 
themselves at night, within shot of a vineyard, a clump of oak 
trees, or a pond, which the animals are i: 
and shoot them on their appearance. 
When taken young, the Wild Boar is 
n the habit of visiting. 
susceptible of a certain 
