tried to spear one on rocky ground where he has not become too 

 fat to gallop. In further proof of the savage courage of a boar, I 

 may mention the following instance which is recorded in the hunt 

 annals of the 25th of December 69. A large unwounded boar had 

 succeeded in getting into some thick bushes ; on being bullied 

 by a terrier he charged the] nearest hunter and ripped the horse 

 very badly, two other sportsmen who were not riding then tried 

 to tempt the boar to charge, one by firing No. 10, or quail-shot, 

 into the bush the other by riding a camel into it. The last was 

 successful for " charging straight at the camel's legs (receiving 

 some shot in his face on his way) he completely routed the whole 

 arrangement, knocked over and ripped the camel, which broke its 

 leg in falling, and then made away across the fields ;" he was followed 

 and twice speared, but he was as cunning as courageous and man- 

 aged to give his pursuers the slip in some long grass and thick bushel. 

 This boar's savage charge at the camel was within a few yards 

 of all of us, for every one was trying to incite him to come 

 forth : after his headlong rush out of the bush he reared so upright 

 in his attempt to reach his clumsy disturber, which was quite 

 frantic from deadly fear, that he succeeded in ripping it in, what 

 in a horse would be termed, the stifle joint. The poor brute 

 rolled over in its agony, smashed one of its legs in the fall and was 

 of course shot. Luckily the rider, one of the best known among the 

 Nagpore hunt, was not hurt. 



Anglo-Indians are often justly accused (we Madrasees are less 

 guilty than those from our sister Presidencies) of the crime of 

 interlarding our language with terms sporting, judicial, financial 

 or mercantile, as the case may be, extracted from the various un- 

 known tongues of the districts in which we are quartered. Among 

 others the word " Sounder" as a base substitute for some British 

 term, has been laid to the discredit of pig-stickers. Let me in 

 defence of many a dear comrade of " Saddle, Spur and Spear" 

 give the following extract from Bailey's English Dictionary which, 

 as the 15th Edition was published in 1753, should be an authority 

 old enough to satisfy most men. 

 " Sound ) [among Hunters'] a Herd, 

 S ounder j or Company of Swine" 



