Bores!

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XXVI, 29 December 1900, Page 1208

Bores!

There are various kinds of bores. For instance, there is wild boar, and the tame bore who drives you wild. The hide of the wild boar is covered with short strong bristles which ean turn the point of a spear, and affords him a certain amount of protection. The hide of the tame bore is absolutely impenetrable. Wild boars have long ceased to roam about in this country, but a number of them are preserved in an enclosure in Windsor Forest; tame bores are still to be found in great numbers in England, and most of them are only too well preserved. Hunters are warned to avoid the tusks of the wild boar, which are sharp and inflict ’ a nasty wound; you should also endeavour to avoid the tongue of the bore, for although not as a rule sharp it has the power of making you mad. Unless disturbed in his haunts the wild boar does not generally attack human beings: it differs in this respect from the tame bore, who sallies forth in search of his victims and runs them down even when they are most anxious to avoid him. Years ago in the mansions of the mighty one of the principal dishes was boar’s head, which was set upon the table at Christmas time with much pomp and ceremony, and even now at a fashionable dinner party a bore’s head is frequentlj' seen at the table. • In concluding this article upon bores I should like to point out with pardonable pride that I have resistedi all temptation to allude to the feather and-fur boas worn by ladies, and have not even .so much as mentiohed the boa-constrietor. *