“Four kinds of wild pigs are found. The most numerous, or at least the most often seen, as it lies about our enclosures, is the common thorn-hog. It is the largest of the wild pigs, long-bodied and flat-sided, in colour much the hue of the mud in which it wallows.” – Richard Jefferies, After London

The first Hooting Yard of 2005 brings more revelations into the literary life of Dobson, plus advice on keeping a wild-pig.

* Tsunami Apeal
* Introduction (Belshazar’s Feast)
* Me and my Thorn-Hog
* In a Cabin, On a Ship (When Blodgett met Dobson)
* Phantasmal Quest Thing (Dobson’s Tolkienesque Fantasy)
* Belshazar’s Feast (A story about Abba)
* Hengist Pod Asks a Question
* Quotation from Robert Burton, “The Anatomy Of Melancholy”
* Has he taken leave of his senses? (An invistigation into the detective methods of Confidential Agent Blott)
* The Cabinet of Doctor Calicagcag