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STORY OF THE WILD BOAR. 
The wild hog, or boar, inhabits many parts of Europe, especially the 
forests of Germany, where the chase of the wild boar is a common amuse¬ 
ment. It has become extinct in this country for many years. Its tusks 
are terrible weapons, and capable of being used with fatal effect. They 
curve outwards from the lower jaw, and are sometimes eight or ten inches in 
length. In India, where the boar attains to a great size, the horses on which 
the hunters are mounted often refuse to bring their riders within spear stroke 
of the infuriated animal, and I have seen it kill a horse, and severely injure 
the rider with one sweep of its enormous tusks. 
The wild boar is distinguished by a body generally of dusky-brown or 
grayish color, having a tendency to> black, and being diversified with black 
spots. The front teeth or tusks in the male are long and powerful, and 
project beyond the upper lip, the mouth is large, and the elongated head is 
set on a short neck rising out of a thick and muscular body. The size is 
variable, an old wild boar, measured by a hunter, being five feet nine inches 
long, while a four-year-old of the more ordinary size measured three feet 
without the tail. The female is smaller than the male and with smaller 
tusks. The hairs of the body are coarse, intermixed with downy wool. 
On the neck and shoulders the hair takes the form of bristles, being long 
enough to be called a kind of mane which the animal is enabled to erect if 
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