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second spear, the boar after this going and lying down in 

 a pool of water. It was rather difficult to finish him there, 

 as the mud was soft, and on both sides of the place grew 

 a thick babool hedge. With a long bamboo we managed 

 to stir up Master Piggy, who rushed out of the place 

 and made for Morey, who was waiting for him at the 

 edge of the pool, and who dropped him dead with a 

 good spear behind the shoulder. Though not a big 

 boar, he was heavily built and measured 33". 



We were rather surprised in not seeing Lindsay up, 

 specially, after the contemptuous way he had been 

 talking about pig-sticking. We met him, however, on 

 our way back, he was in a great state of excitement, 

 and he told us he had gone after a huge boar, and had 

 ridden the monster to bay ; but that his mare, Lady- 

 bird, would not look at the pig, and he had the morti- 

 fication of seeing him quietly walk away into some 

 heavy jungle ! ! ! 



On our getting near the patiale we saw a couple 

 of pigs come out, and going a short distance they 

 stopped as if not knowing exactly what to do ; but 

 finding, I suppose, everything very quiet they made up 

 to go away and trotted off, evidently making for the 

 heavy jungle round Sajdapore village. As we cantered 

 up we saw one of the pigs was a sow and the other 

 a good boar ; riding them too soon, would have sent 

 them back to the patiale so we allowed them to go 

 away to what we thought was a safe distance. On 

 hearing us coming the boar pulls up short, his small 



