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THE SWINE. 
certain attitudes, upon being shewn some favourite 
food. 
The Wild Boar has, in its wild state, been 
always looked upon as an object of terror, and, 
in confinement, as an animal of loathsome and 
dirty habits, and associated with what is beastly 
and disgusting. When hunted or enraged, the 
Boar becomes a most ferocious animal, defending 
himself to the utmost; but in confinement, the 
Sow seems conscious of good treatment, and 
will follow the individual who thus well uses it. 
For their dirty habits, they are perhaps somewhat 
indebted to the carelessness of their masters, and 
the limited and dirty space in which they are 
kept ; for a Sow, in an ill kept sty, is, in reality, 
the perfect image of a “ dirty beast but when 
at large, excepting their propensity to wallow, 
which is common to all the Pachydermes, and a 
provision in warm climates to protect from insects 
a hide naturally bare of hair, we have nothing 
more unseemly to separate them from their allies. 
The sleeping lair of the Wild Hog, is generally 
among some dry and warm herbage ; and a supply 
of fresh and clean litter causes expressive com- 
fort to the animal in his sty ; and in both eases, 
when the cover is abundant, it is made to conceal 
and skreen the body from heat or cold. 
We have represented on the accompanying 
plate, 
