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lowers, evidently town born and bred. In tramping 
home, after feeding out for the night, some of the 
town dogs, of a good enough quality of the hound 
and terrier breed, set upon them. Instantly the 
country hogs turned round, and coolly taking up 
their position in the angle of a wall, put the black 
pig and four young ones within the corner in their 
rear, and threw themselves before them. They 
then commenced that peculiar short hasty grunt, 
with which the hog kind announce danger, or pre- 
pare for a resolute resistance. The dogs that came 
upon them being reinforced by a troop from the 
several yards round about, became a pack of twelve 
or fourteen in an instant. Among these were some 
five small curs. The three blue pigs were undaunted. 
They stood their ground with their faces to their 
enemies, and though the dogs beset them with a de- 
termination to fight in earnest, they successfully kept 
off their assailants. The curs barked and grabbed at 
them between the legs of the larger dogs ; — the 
larger dogs rushed at them six in a line together. 
The young boar, with well developed tusks, stood in 
the centre, and stepping every now and then one 
pace forward, made his upward rips at the dogs, 
and effectively struck them without receiving a single 
touch himself. The assault continued some time, 
but the pigs were not to be moved from their posi- 
tion. The dogs received several severe cuts and 
grips. I never saw a better managed defence. No 
exertion or perseverance could force the pigs from 
their vantage ground. The conflict drew the neigh- 
bours out; and it was not until they had drawn 
away the dogs one by one to their homes, that the 
