136 REMINISCENCES OF PIG-STICKING. 



and though we lost him for the time being he was 

 found dead three days afterwards. Though I could not 

 get his measurement, he must have stood fully 37" to 38." 

 By a very strange coincidence just a year after day by 

 day, the spear left by Morey in the pig was found by 

 some of the mahouts beating the patiale on another 

 "Soncrantie" day meet ; both blade and bamboo were 

 intact and in a perfect state of preservation and served 

 for many a day afterwards. Poor Punch, Morey's pony, 

 who was ripped by the boar, died a few days later of 

 lock-jaw or tetanus brought on by the wound. 



Lady-bird became Morey's property from that day, 

 and the game little mare died in the field a year or so 

 after by breaking her back in a hurdle race at Midna- 

 pore and having to be destroyed. 



