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amount of training. It becomes fond of its master, follows bim, 
and likes to be caressed. It, however, retains much of tbe rough- 
ness and bluntness which are natural to its race. For a bit of 
bread or some other little thing they are fond of, Wild Boars, 
when tamed, have been known to perform certain exercises, to 
assume different attitudes, and play various tricks. The in- 
habitants of the Place Saint-Sulpice, at Paris, remember a tame 
Boar that was kept in the courtyard of a man who let out vans 
for removing furniture, and which v r as almost as quiet and docile 
as a domestic animal. 
The Wild Boar is found in those parts of France where there 
are still large forests. In England it has been long extinct. It 
was common in the environs of London in the twelfth century. 
In many parts of the continent of Europe, in the north and the 
east of Asia, it is abundant, and in many islands in the Mediter- 
ranean, also in Algeria, and Egypt. 
Without speaking further here of the species of Wild Boars 
peculiar to India and its islands, or of those which belong to 
Africa, we will pass on at once to the Domestic Pig, which is 
nothing but a Wild Boar which by a long servitude has been 
modified both physically and morally. 
There has been much controversy as to the origin of the 
Domestic Pig. On the one hand, it has been said that they 
sprang from Wild Boars that had been domesticated, and that 
they had, from generation to generation, gradually assumed the 
characteristics of the domestic animal. It has also been asserted, 
that Domestic Pigs, having been allowed to return to their wild 
life, have after a certain time resumed the form, the manners, 
and the habits of the Wild Boar. 
The male Pig is called a Boar, and the female a Sow. Soon after 
their birth, the young ones are called Sucking Pigs and Porkers. 
Hog is the general appellation of the adults. 
The Pig has a large, quadrangular, pyramidical head, more or 
less elongated, and truncated obliquely at its extremity. The 
eyes are small. The ears are placed high up on the head, and 
vary in form and direction according to the breed of the animal. 
The mouth is very wide. The canine teeth of the male are curved 
and projecting. The body is more or less long, broad, rounded, 
and covered with bristles, of which the quantity, the length, and 
