often stops and turns to bay, and _especially when he is at the brimming_ and hath a little advantage before the hounds of the first running, and these will never overtake him unless other new hounds be uncoupled to him. [73] G. de F., p. 58, says they wind acorns as well or better than a bear, but nothing about winding a man. See Appendix: Wild Boar. [74] From F. _renouveler_. [75] See Appendix: Wild Boar. [76] September 14. [77] November 30. [78] Despiteful or furious deeds. G. de F., p. 60, says that he only trusts in his defences and his weapons ("en sa défense et en ses armes"). He will well run and fly from the sun rising to the going down of the sun, if he be a young boar of three years old. In the third March counting that in which he was farrowed, he parteth from his mother and may well engender at the year's end.[79] [79] As this is somewhat confused we have followed G. de F.'s text in the modern rendering. They have four tusks, two in the jaw above and two in the nether jaw; of small teeth speak not I, the which are like other boar's teeth. The two tusks above serve for nothing except to sharpen his two nether tusks and make them cut well _and men beyond the sea call_ the nether tusks of the boar his arms or his files, with these they do great harm, and also they call the tusks above gres[80] (grinders) for they only serve to make the others sharp as I have said, and when they are at bay they keep smiting their tusks together to make them sharp and cut better. When men hunt the boar they commonly go to soil and soil in the dirt and if they be hurt the soil is their medicine. The boar that is in his third year or a little more is more perilous and more swift and doth more harm than an old boar, as a young man more than an old man. An old boar will be sooner dead than a young one for he is proud and heavier and deigneth not to fly, and sooner he will run upon a man than fly, and smiteth great strokes but not so perilously as a young boar. [80] From the French _grès_, grinding-stone or grinders.