MODOOPORE U NULL" MEET. 139 



was to consist of some seven elephants and sixty beaters 

 with tom-toms and rattles. 



The Null looked very fresh and heavy ; and the 

 hathees and coolies seemed to make very little impres- 

 sion in it. It took fully a couple of hours' stirring up 

 before the first pig broke : old Angelo got away at his 

 tail, and after a short run secured the spear. This was 

 not much of a pig, and stood 31". 



Scarcely was this first pig killed than a fine-looking 

 boar was seen to come out, but being ridden too soon made 

 for Amtollah village : Captain Fife on a very fast bay 

 waler took him at a rattling pace, and having slightly 

 headed him, with a snort and a grunt down came the boar 

 on him. The Captain received the pig with a good spear 

 in the back, recovered his weapon and galloped on. 

 Instead of staying to meet Beresford, who was close 

 behind, the boar turned and pursued Fife, and while so 

 doing was overtaken by his Lordship, who rolled him 

 over with a good spear on the spine. This was a good 

 pig, one of the best of the meet, and measured 35 // . 



The third boar broke on the river side ; but after going 

 a short distance, he turned round and made back for 

 the Null, and feeling, I suppose, rather pumped he 

 slackened speed, and after apparently a moment's reflec- 

 tion, he turned round and came at Archie who had 

 pressed forward to close ; there was a tremendous con- 

 cussion, and the boar was seen to roll over dead. This 

 was a rather small pig, but with plenty of pluck in 

 him. 



