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pigs could be enticed from their hold. On another 
menace from the dogs, they took up a second similar 
position, and firmly maintained a second onset of 
their assailants with the same successful resistance. 
No badger in his tub could have been more stout- 
hearted, resolute, and courageous, than these three 
mountain hogs in their corner. 
“ My father used to relate an encounter he once 
had with a full-grown wild boar. He had entered a 
forest where occasional rocks bounding the right 
hand and the left gave the character of a defile to a 
mountain pass. A hog traversing the glen, no sooner 
found himself, when on the road, encountering an 
enemy than he faced round, and assumed an attitude 
of opposition to all further attempts to approach 
him. There being no dread of anything in the rear, 
and all that he apprehended of danger being before 
him, he stood ready to strike with his tusks ; and he 
continued this sort of threat, whenever any endeavour 
was made to advance upon him, for a full half hour. 
No menace could move him from this stand till he 
heard footsteps from behind, when his position being 
no longer secure, he crossed the road into the woods 
at full speed, and left an undisputed pathway to the 
travellers upward and downward.” 
In a recent communication, my friend thus returns 
to the subject. — Sth February , 1851. I have 
learned some new facts respecting hog-hunting. The 
present letter, you will perceive, covers some addi- 
tional notes to those already sent you on that subject. 
They may be said to embrace the commercial details 
of our Forest Swine, with some notices of Maroon 
