CHAPTER IX, 

 Three Days 5 Outing — One of the Good Old Kind. 



Sometime towards the end of February, 1885, I got 

 a letter from Archie Hills from Sonaticree, saying he 

 was coming over with Jim Henderson to do some hog- 

 hunting and try that new part of the country lying 

 between Hurriarpara and the Naranpore Ghat, and as 

 they meant to be out for two or three days to chose a 

 place where the tents were to be put up, and to meet 

 "them early next day. 



I wrote where the encampment was to be, and rode 

 out next morning a mile or so beyond the Hurriarpara 

 village. After waiting for a couple of hours I caught 

 sight of Hills and Henderson" in the distance, and an 

 hour later we met* 



The first part of the country we went over was what 

 you might call an old mulberry or mulberry cultivation 

 country full of yawning ditches, and better adapted for 

 steeple-chasing on a big scale than pig-sticking. The 

 cover, too, was very unsatisfactory, for wherever the 

 grass was heavy nullahs were plentiful, so the first 

 two or three pigs got away unridden. Giving it up as 



