The Boar. 41 



No time is to be lost. Keeping behind the boar if 

 possible, he rushes to the bloody conflict, and drives 

 the hunting-knife between the shoulders in the en- 

 deavor to divide the spine. Should he happily effect 

 this, the boar falls stone dead ; but if not, he repeats 

 the thrust, keeping a good lookout for the animal's 

 tusks. 



If the dogs were of not sufficient courage to rush in 

 and seize the boar when halloaed on, no man could ap- 

 proach him in a thick jungle with only a hunting-knife, 

 as he would in all probability have his insides ripped 

 out at the first charge. The animal is wonderfully active 

 and ferocious, and of immense power, constantly 

 weighing 4 cwt. 



The end of nearly every good seizer is being killed 

 by a boar. The better the dog the more likely he is to 

 be killed, as he will be the first to lead the attack, and 

 in thick jungle he has no chance of escaping from a 

 wound. 

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