CHAPTER XVI. 

 A Grand Day's Sport. 



Nineteen pigs in one day is a fact which has not 

 often, I believe, been chronicled in the annals of sports. 

 The meet at which we got this grand day's sport was at 

 one of the Easter Null pig-sticking meets, given by 

 that chief of pig-stickers, Archie Hills. 



The party consisted of Judge Bainbridge, Major 

 Peacock, Old Angelo, Captain Austin, M. Ferguson, J. 

 Malcolm, J. W. Stocks, C. Fasson, E. Stacks, G. Gib- 

 son, our host and myself. 



The meet was fixed for the 13th April, 1878. On the 

 12th a refreshing nor' wester had considerably softened 

 the ground, and the 13th was a delightful day — cool and 

 cloudy, the ground soft, in fact we could not have wished 

 for anything better. Besides the above-mentioned the 

 Nawab Bahadoor of Murshedabad (or Burra Saheb as 

 he was then called) came with some of his brothers. 



The party got to the ground by seven o'clock, and the 

 beat was at once commenced with nine elephants and a 

 lot of coolies and drums. The morning being very 

 cloudy a few pigs might have been seen coining back into 

 the Null from their night's roving, and it was difficult 



