74 REMINISCENCES OF PIG-STICKING. 



no, piggy would have his own way and stuck to the grass. 

 Morey rushed him and took him at a good trot for a 

 short distance, when, objecting to being thus turned out 

 of his domain, the pig turned round and came straight 

 down on Morey bounding and grunting in fury. There 

 was a crash, the spear struck on the tough hide of the 

 shoulder and going in some inches broke in two like a 

 reed, and in an instant Morey's right foot was in the pig's 

 mouth, and before he could recover his balance he was 

 hurled to the ground. It was lucky for Morey that the 

 infuriated pig was a sow and not a boar, or his hunting 

 days would have ended rather abruptly. Madame after 

 this little performance feeling, I should say, rather sick, 

 retired a short distance, keeping up a defiant attitude and 

 ready to attack again ; but she evidently had had enough, 

 for, going a short distance, she lay down, and was found 

 dead by the coolies. 



Owing to the height of the grass Morey never knew 

 the pig was a sow till they came into collision, but mistook 

 her for a boar; and it is, I think, just as well that that 

 pig belonged to the gentler sex. This shows what an in- 

 furiated sow can do; and, about the breaking of the spear, 

 I might as well tell all pig-stickers, that they cannot be 

 too careful about them. They must take care that the 

 bamboo shafts be thoroughly sound, and kept moist by 

 frequent applications of oil, and this application has also 

 a very good effect in keeping away some small insects 

 that bore in the bamboos and render them unsound and 

 liable to snap.; the spear-heads should be kept bright and 



