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boar, on seeing himself baffled, came straight into 

 Drummond who got a good spear, Anderson getting 

 second spear ; in the scrimmage that now ensued, the 

 boar managed to rip Drummond's breeches just above 

 the knee, and to give him a slight cut. This would have 

 been a rather difficult thing for the pig to do had not he 

 been on a higher bit of ground. Hills next met the 

 pig and sent a spear clean through him, this made the 

 boar totter on to an open bit of ground, where he fell 

 apparently dead. 



Without losing much time over our fallen foe, we 

 made tracks for the patch of grass where we had left our 

 tailless friend, for we were now certain that the pig we 

 had just killed was not the one we had first started. 



We were not long in looking for piggy, who must 

 have been on the look-out for us, for no sooner we got 

 into the grass, than out he came on the opposite side 

 and made for another patch of kkor. As there were 

 some blind ditches to be negotiated the boar got in first, 

 and, I suppose, finding no one to take his place a second 

 time, he prepared to give us a warm reception. The 

 first to get in was Evans on a grey C.-B., and the boar 

 no sooner saw him than he cocked his ears and with an 

 angry grunt down he came. I believed this was the 

 first time that Evans had been after a pig. When he 

 saw the boar charging, instead of putting on steam to 

 meet him, he pulled up his horse, thinking, I suppose, 

 to stop the boar with his spear — and he did give the boar 

 a very good spear but the next moment the legal 



