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the colour are variable. Whilst in other domestic animals the fat 
is placed between the muscles, in the Pig it forms between the. 
flesh and the subcutaneous muscles. When cured, this is called 
bacon. In the interior of the body, that is to say, below the 
peritoneum, is found a secretion from which lard is made. 
The legs are thin, and more or less short, according to the 
breed ; the toes are four in number, two large ones, which rest 
on the ground and on which the animal supports itself, and two 
smaller ones, which are higher up the limb. The last joint of 
each toe is enveloped in a triangular horn. Its tail is small, thin, 
and twisted. 
According to certain authors, the Domestic Pig has lost nothing 
of the brutality of character and rusticity of habits of the Wild 
Boar ; it has not only, say they, become less intelligent, retaining 
all the faults of the latter, but none of its good qualities. Accord- 
ing to others, the Pig is not what some people erroneously sup- 
pose : but is clever and sagacious, and can be educated and 
instructed. 
In justification of this latter opinion we are told of some 
touching traits of good-fellowship that existed between a Pig 
and a Dog. We are reminded that Pigs have been trained for 
the chase ; that a Pig was exhibited on the stage in London and 
in America, and that it was the hero of many a play ; and, lastly, 
the audiences were in raptures at the amount of its language. 
“ Its cries of distress are lamentable,” says Dr. Jonathan Franklin. 
“ On the other hand, when it is happy, when it is walking at 
liberty in the sun, it converses with its friends in short, energetic, 
broken phrases, which doubtless express its good-humour and its 
sociable feelings.” * 
This indulgent interpretation of the grantings of the Pig is, 
perhaps, open to dispute. Without pretending to settle the 
matter, we will call our readers’ attention to a characteristic about 
which there is no doubt whatever, we mean the peculiarity this 
animal has of refusing obstinately to perform that which is re- 
quired of it, and of doing exactly the opposite. This spirit of 
stubborn opposition is so well known, that Man turns it to his 
own advantage. When a pig-driver wishes to make a Pig ad- 
vance in a certain direction against its will, he drags it with all 
* La Vie des Animaux , 8vo., Mammiferes. 
