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and keep him in sight till we came to an open bit of 

 ground. As we were getting nearer and nearer the 

 village piggy's chance of escape was increasing, so 

 Anderson took advantage of a bit of clearing there was, 

 to make a dash at the pig, and he would have got a 

 spear in, but unfortunately a small branch hit him in 

 the face and nearly knocked him off his horse. It was 

 now only a short distance to the village ; the only 

 chance left was to ride ahead and meet the pig ; so 

 Hills and Drummond went ahead and the latter took his 

 position right in the middle of the path. The boar on 

 seeing him cocked up his ears and, gathering himself 

 up, went bounding to meet Drummond who met him in 

 grand style, the spear going right through, and the blade 

 coming out under his belly. Of course this made the 

 pig stagger and he just managed to crawl up alongside 

 the boar we had first killed that day, and lying down 

 he gave a few kicks and it was all over. 



As the liquor-box was handy, and we were rather 

 thirsty, a peg was very acceptable. Before mounting 

 our horses again Hills remarked to Drummond that as 

 his broken spear was still in the pig, they had better 

 pull it out ; so walking up to where the boar lay they 

 pulled it out, but no sooner did they do so than up 

 jumped the pig who was supposed to have been killed 

 four or five hours before. Of course, there was a regu- 

 lar stampede, for not only had the pig got up, but he 

 was looking round to see on whom to wreak his ven- 

 geance. Fortunately for us he began making tracks for 



