112 REMINISCENCES OF PIG-STICKING. 



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gone after the first pig. Cantering up, the boar al- 

 lowed us to get within a couple of hundred yards 

 before he thought of clearing out, and then went the 

 way he was making for, a big bil at least three miles 

 off. After a gallop of over a mile over hard, ploughed 

 lands, Joynson secured the first spear. This was a rather 

 small pig as he measured only 26". Lunch was now 

 the order of the day, and as soon as this was over Hills 

 and I wished good-bye to our guests, who left, well 

 pleased for Sonaticree, en route for Calcutta, while we 

 rode into Berhampore for Mosley's dinner. 



