32 REMINISCENCES OF PIG-STICKING. 



appointment was rather pleasant, for in the next hour or 

 • two no less than eight, all very good boars, were killed. 



In the middle of the open, and just alongside a road, 

 we came* to a small thorny bush barely sixty or seventy 

 feet in circumference. Hills, Lord William, some two 

 or three others and myself stood round it talking and 

 waiting for the elephants to come up. A slight rustle 

 warned us the place was inhabited. Some of the syces 

 having come up a few clods were thrown in, when out 

 came a very good boar. As we started at his tail he did 

 not go far : Hills getting first spear. Lord Beresford 

 coining up speared him a second time, the spear break- 

 ing in the pig who staggered and lay down in a pool of 

 water. While this pig was being killed another one 

 started out of the same small bush, and there was a rush 

 after him. Lord William getting first spear, the pig 

 going and lying near the one first speared. 



The cold bath had evidently revived number one, who 

 got up and made tracks for the village. Hills, who has 

 great objections to allowing wounded pigs to go, espe-^ 

 cially near inhabitated places, called out to go and polish 

 him off. Some four or five, including himself and a 

 couple of the Nawabs, went ; the pig had by this time 

 got among ditches where it was impossible to ride. 

 Hills and Captain Harbord dismounted and went on foot 

 after the boar, who seemed to be rather done up; but he 

 had more life still in him than they expected; for no 

 sooner was he speared then he tried to climb the sides of 

 the ditch he was in. Hills and Captain Harbord had all 



