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motto must have been " Never say die ! ! !" With all 

 these spears in him, the boar had still a good deal of 

 life left, for he next made for a high bund or embank- 

 ment, where he took up his position ready to meet any- 

 one. I forgot to mention that the boar had been spear- 

 ed and blinded in the right eye. Evans, who was on a 

 12-2 dun Burmah pony, thought it a good opportunity 

 to see what he could do with it, so he went as quietly as 

 he could on the blind side, but though piggy might 

 have lost an eye, his hearing organs were not in the 

 least impaired, for hearing, I suppose, the pony's foot- 

 steps, he turned sharp round and made for Evans, who 

 just managed to get out of his way by going down the 

 embankment faster than he had come. There was no 

 coaxing the boar from his present position, so the only 

 thing left was to send for the hathees to turn him out. 

 One of the elephants, we knew by previous experience, 

 would not face a pig, so only one was ordered up. The 

 mahout brought up his charger triumphantly. Piggy 

 was at first inclined to get out of the way of so huge an 

 opponent, but he soon made up his mind not to be turn- 

 ed out of his position without making a struggle for it. 

 When within measuring distance the boar went for the 

 elephant, who did not wait to make a closer acquaintance 

 with his porcupine-looking foe, but turned tail and bolted. 

 I believe elephants have a wholesome dread of wild 

 pigs, and funk them nearly as much as they do tigers. 



Piggy, who must have been elated at his last success, 

 and who did not care to have Anderson coming too near 



