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136 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
you, whose family we all respect for its courage
and ferocity, as a common pig."
" Ah! you may well talk of our courage,"
replied the boar. " If I liked, I could tell you
some tales that would astonish you."
" Pray do so," I replied, as I was anxious to
hear his experiences.
" Well," said he, " I must tell you that I
come from the forests of Germany, where
hundreds of us roamed at large. In the
daytime we hid ourselves in the recesses of the
woods, but at night we used to sally forth into
the fields, and I am afraid we often did a great
deal of mischief in the gardens that bordered
the forest; for you must know we have an
irresistible desire to burrow with our snouts in
the ground to look for roots. And many a time
I have entered a garden where everything
was in beautiful order, and after disporting
myself there for several hours, have left it a
perfect wilderness, and all ploughed up with
furrows which I had made in my efforts to tear up
the roots of the plants.
" As you may imagine, this made the people
who lived near our haunts very angry; and
often, when we had done more damage even
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