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got on the village cart track. Piggy very soon resented 

 being done out of his road by charging Morey, who got 

 a slight prod at him. The boar who evidently did not 

 relish the turn matters were taking made for a patch of 

 water on a part of the road that had been cut up. The 

 mud was soft, so both Mister Pig and the horses sank in 

 deep, and the situation was far from being pleasant ; but 

 the couple more spears that Morey got made the boar 

 come out and he next made for some mulberry ditches. 

 On seeing Morey come up, piggy pulled up as if resolv- 

 ed to die game, and he did die game ; for the next spear 

 he got sent him on his haunches and gradually subsiding 

 he gave up the ghost without a groan or a squeak. 



This was not a big boar, and must have stood 27" to 

 28"; but he had plenty of fight in him. 



Encouraged at having had such a capital run, for the 

 time of the year, we next rode on towards a line of bushes 

 right in the open. On our way we noticed that most of 

 the paddy, or dhan fields, had been a good deal trampled 

 and eaten, and wherever there was a little water or the 

 mud soft the pigs had been rolling and amusing them- 

 selves. The first bush we came to was rather a heavy 

 one, but after a little hesitation " Trixie " and her 

 companion sneaked in. This was soon followed by 

 furious barking ; for a minute or two there was no 

 sign of anything, and then the whole bush shook as if 

 alive and out crashed a huge boar with " Trixie " at his 

 tail. The pig, who had broken on the opposite side to 

 where we were, was not at first inclined to go away, 



