... of spinach, and creeks were suspect, as were the processing plants. Finally, a wild boar burst into the news. How to make sense of the situation? Meanwhile, grocery stores and restaurants...

... at my backdoors. Finally a Negro reported to me that he had seen a great wild boar rooting in the cornfield. As he dreaded the creature, but more especially because he was short of Christmas bacon, he im­ plored me to organize a hunt for the boar. I agreed; and before the plantation house the mighty...

... cious stones, or necklaces of gold from which sometimes hung an amulet as a protection against the wild boar. Bullas of silver were fastened to their foreheads with slender straps, and brass ornaments in the form of berries or pearls were sus­ pended from their ears. They became accustomed to being...

..., into neighboring park or forest. The gentle white hind, the dun deer, the hare, the more fearsome wolf, or bear, hide in these wooded re­ treats. The wild boar greatly delights the soul of the hunter of magic game, especially such a boar as the pretty spotted pig that loses his head as the price...

... at the Boar s Head Tavern. Similarly, the belief that the good life required a nice balance of common sense and compassion, of head and heart, was for Goldsmith a lasting conviction. His awareness that this condition was often more easily described than achieved makes the platitude interesting and accounts...

... England without attacking Russia, just so long did we stand in danger of that final ra'pprochement between the Russian bear and the Prussian wild boar. We know that there was great dissention in the Nazi camp pre­ ceding the onslaught against Russia: we know that the Russians, while intensively augmenting...

..., and the ironic renunciation by the prince in his prodigal days. Falstaff, like both father and son, is caught up in the relation­ ship of morality to power. The trial scene at the Boar s Head Tavern in Eastcheap shows how Shakespeare could come to grips with a serious problem in low comedy. Falstaff parodies...

... extravagance, he related his grandfather Lampryas story of the medical student Philotas, a young man desirous to see things (p. 982 D), who had been allowed by one of Antony s cooks to observe the wonderfull sumptuous charge and preparation of one only supper which in­ cluded eight wilde boares rosted...

..., forbidden by officers in 1557. On September 5 of this very stirring year the Privy Council wrote the Mayor of London that a lewde play was to be given on that date at the Boar s Head in Algate. Officers were instructed to commit the players to salfe warde and send the play-book to the Council...

... longer than he sees reason, as Poins says. On the other hand, in comparison with the Prince in the scene at the Boar s Head, he is surely panicky at the thought of fighting the rebels: Tell me, Hal, 90 The South Atlantic Quarterly art not thou horrible afeard? Thou being heir apparent, could the world...

... the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it. Now the boar and the asp have power in our time. Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid. The best illustration of the gulf that divides the poetry of democ­ racy from proletarian poetry is the work of Carl Sandburg, espe­ cially...

..., for a long time remained praying in his tent, while Alfred and his followers went forth like a wild boar against the hounds. During these youthful years Alfred, unlike his older brother Ethelbold, entered into no conspiracy against the king his father; he sought by no indirection to get for himself position...

... in literature Lear on the heath, Oedipus at Colonus, FalstafF at the Boar s Head, Jim and Huck Finn on the raft, Raskolnikov in Sonia s sordid room, Odysseus with his great bow in a hall littered with suitors, Pickwick and Sam Weller, Julien Sorel brandishing a sword at Mile de la Mole, the Wife of Bath, Dante...

... felicity. They belong to the Boar s Head in Eastcheap with valiant Jack Falstaff taking his ease The Genius of Gusto 165 and never a thought of the score to pay; to the Apollo, where, surrounded by his sons, Rare Ben Johnson, mountain bellied and rocky faced, like a great Spanish galleon drank...

... in English history. Orwell, it is worth noting, felt that if a comparison had to be made between Joseph Stalin and any figure from English history, Cromwell was the obvious choice (IV, 16, 17). Orwell s allegory in Animal Earm follows a similar pattern. Old Major, a boar with prophetic vision, tells...

... such titles appeared as The Boar and the Beaver, The Monkey and the Cat, The Rabbit and the Squirrel, The Mice and Two Rats. This bestiary, however, did not crowd out such tried and true titles as The Withered Rose, To Julia, Spring, Dreams, and Yon Setting Sun. In its new form Mrs. Colvin s...

... when an old boar turned on me. She throws back her head again and laughs soundlessly, shaking her shoulders. Watching the hearty abandon of that gesture, one glimpses the days when that wide, wrinkled, old throat was smooth and firm and she was young Polly Boone, afraid of nothing, the little sister...

... Kamapuaʻa, the Hawaiian pig god, can change his body at will. One moment he is a virile youth, tempting divine women; in the next, he is a giant boar, ruthlessly devouring his enemies, defiant of all authority...

... boar, the shouts of Finn and the Fianna in relentless pursuit. The names of Finn Mac Cumhail, Ossian, Os­ car, Caoilte, Fergus True-lips, Diarmuid of the love-spot, and his heartless wife Grainne, the sturdy Goll, the bald Conan, breeder of mischief and hateful of tongue, mean to the average reader...

... shoulder, sir? There I must plant my oar, on the very spot, with burnt offerings to Poseidon of the Waters: a ram, a bull, a great buck boar. Thereafter when I come home again, I am to slay full hekatombs to the gods who own broad heaven, one by one. Then death will drift upon me from seaward, mild as air...