PAKHAL NADDI OF THE PALM TREES. 



The literature of hog-hunting is already so complete r 

 and has been dealt with by such past masters in the sport 

 itself as well as in its portrayal, that the subject is to be 

 approached with the greatest diffidence. All that can be said 

 on this grand, engrossing, hunting topic must needs savour 

 too much of what has gone before ; and yet reminiscences of 

 bygone days at " Junglypur" would be incomplete without 

 some reference to what the old place afforded us of this 

 very quintessence of the hunter's sport. 



Hog-hunting played a great part in the woodland sports 

 of Ancient England, if we are to judge by the preponderance 

 of the "boare,"the " wylde swyne," in the hunting pic- 

 tures and poetry of a certain period of those olden days. 

 The lines of Chaucer and of other contemporary poets testify 

 to the hunter's joy in partaking of what was evidently con- 

 sidered the "blue riband" of that old time shikdr his 

 pride and boast of conquest over the " fearsome tuskyd 

 beaste." 



In the lay of " Syr Eglamoure of Artoys " (dated 1570) 

 we have a wonderfully spirited account of hog-hunting three 

 hundred and thirty years ago, which will show pigstickers 

 of to-day that there is little "new under the sun : " 



Syr Eglamoure wened well to do, 

 With a speare he rode him to, 

 As fast as he myghte ryde. 

 Or yf he rode never so fast, 

 The good speare aionder brast, 

 It wolde not in the hyde. 



