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    34 ALGERINS NQTES.

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    ¦ » The Wild Boae.

    and thrown down headlong without so much as seeing your _adversary . Few animals can cope with the wild boar in a bush . The

    lions when they are old and have experience do not enter the lair of a wild boar ; they spring on it when it is out . The Arabs

    related to us several fights in which lions were slain by wild boars and found dead in the lair . Some of our hunters only escaped

    from death-wounds by happy chances . In 1842 , near Babaly , Mr . Haristoy fired his double-barrelled gun at a wild boar without , effect .

    The beast while springing on him received a shot from another hunter , in spite of which he rushed on and rolled over with his

    victim , covering him with blood . "When Mr . Haristoy extricated _, himself he was astonished to find hirnself without a woundalthough

    bathed in the blood of the animal . The last gun-shot , fired had broken the interior jawand rendered the tusks perfectly harmless .

    , Mr . C— : — was attacked by a wounded , and furious wild boar . He loaded his gunhis dog rushed boldly at the beast and received a

    tusk stroke , but , continued to fight bravely till his master , having loaded , shot down the enemy which would certainly have killed him

    if it had not been for the dog . Alas ! the faithful friend , a fine Danish pointer , died under the corpse o _( the boar , regretted by , us

    all , and bitterly wept over by its grateful master . , Another time the same Mr . C—— _-having his gun unloaded

    thrust the barrel into the mouth of the , wild boar , who pushed back , several pacesand they _botli fell together into a ravine . Here the

    wild boar left , him . Perhaps his fall of twelve feet or more had shaken his resolution of revenge .

    'Wild boars taken young are as tamable as dogs . They show a great deal of intelligence and willand defend persons who have

    , reared them . An officer of the French army had a wild boar which followed him everywhere . One day , in a street of Oran , he had

    a quarrel with a Jew and struck him with a cane . Suddenly the boar rushed at the Jew and bit him very severely in the leg . They

    like to play with other animals . In the first years of the conquest , I often saw in the neighborhood of Algiers tame boars amusing ,

    themselves by _f laying at being hunted by dogs , then , after a long run returning home together to the townthe best friends in the

    , world . If you examine the development of the brain of the boar , you will perceive that it is one of the most intelligent of all

    quadrupeds , and possesses a great many qualities which make it fit for social life . .

    THE IiIO 3 _STS . Lions were never very numerous in the neighborhood of Algiers ; ..

    they came sometimes into the plain of the Metidja when a hard frost drove them down from the mountains . They seldom

    committed depredations upon cattle , and I do not remember any man . ever being devoured by them . In the other provinces they are still

    numerous _though every year the number diminishes . Since the

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/34/