78 first queen's birthday meet, 



the order to ride was given. Wilson, Peacock, Bain- 

 bridge and myself, with a couple of the Nawabs, going 

 after the first boar, while the rest of the party went 

 after the sounder. 



We were not long in coming up with our solitary 

 friend, who was soon blown on account of the heat. 

 Piggy, who was out of temper from the first, turned 

 round and made a desperate charge at the Captain who, 

 in meeting him, broke his spear a foot or two from the 

 blade, which was left buried in the pig's shoulder. 

 Turning round the pig met the Nawab Boodhon Saheb, 

 whom he charged, and whose horse he cut in the stifle, 

 partly dislocating the round bone of the joint, and bring- 

 ing down horse and rider. Fortunately the boar was 

 not blood-thirsty, or it would have gone hard with the 

 Nawab, for after having had a look at his vanquished 

 enemy he made for Bainbridge. The Judge, who is 

 very short-sighted, and one of the most absent-minded 

 of men, had his back turned to the pig and was fumbling 

 away all over for his glasses, to have, I suppose, a good 

 look at piggy ; and though we were shouting to him to 

 get out of the way, he did not seem to hear us. He must 

 have got a rather rude awakening when he found the 

 boar rooting at the horse's hind-quarters, and the horse 

 lashing and plunging. The legal luminary knew, how- 

 ever, it would not do for him to come down, so he held 

 on like grim death, using his spear at the same time 

 very freely behind him with the hope, I suppose, of 

 keeping away the pig, but the only good he did by it 



