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and the last few yards he covered in big bounds. Morey, 

 who went to meet him, misjudged the distance and missed 

 the pig, who in his last jump just grazed the horse's hip, 

 a 15-3 waler, so the jump must have been at least four 

 feet off the ground. After this last charge the pig again 

 got in the field of gehema. To get him out now seemed 

 to be out of the question, as it would have been simply 

 madness to send in the men in such heavy cover after 

 an infuriated boar ; but I must say pigs have this in 

 their favour, that when once roused they become so rest- 

 less and suspicious that they will not stick in any cover, 

 no matter how heavy it may be, except when badly 

 wounded, but will go through. So in this case the pig 

 stayed just time enough to get back his wind and then 

 cleared out of the place towards the side which he 

 thought the quietest. It was sometime before we, who 

 where consulting as to what would be the best way to 

 get him out, found out that he had gone away. We 

 found him leisureiy trotting along the bank of the khal, 

 but no sooner he saw us coming than he pulled up and 

 then came straight down. Morey managed to get a 

 rather good spear somewhere in the neck, but the bam- 

 boo being rotten it broke. The boar, on finding himself 

 speared, chased Morey, who had to make a bolt for it, 

 as he had no spear ; gettiilg a fresh one he went to meet 

 the pig again, who was waiting on the bank of the Midi. 

 The horse he was on, an old pig-sticker evidently, did 

 not like the look of affairs and became rather unsteady, 

 and though he did not actually shy off, he turned his 



