They will go a distance from a fence, take a run, and leap through the rails, three or four feet from the ground, turning themselves sidewise.

These hogs suffer such hardships as no other animal could endure.

It is customary to keep them in the woods all winter, as there is no thrashing or fold-yards; and they must live on the roots of trees, or something of that sort, but they are poor beyond any creature that I ever saw.

That is probably the cause why American pork is so fine.

They are something like forest-sheep.