, Job 16:5-6

1. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
2. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Attracted by game operation, many invested heavily in pins and rolldowns prior to last spring.

The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.

Here we met with the large and deep lairs of the porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and also of the earth-pig, a devourer of ants and termites. The burrows of the earth-pig are several yards deep, and hidden in the grass they constitute a dangerous impediment to the traveller and hunter.