xii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 TACKLING A TUSKER 46 



Roorkee Ten Days' Leave Hurdwar Game of the Doon Valley 

 Ramiah The Rogue Elephant See Tigers News of the Tusker 

 Dawn in the Doon The Sewalik Hills Find the Tusker's Tracks 

 His Depredations A Weary Tramp Ramiah Wants to Give Up 

 Perseverance Rewarded A Long Crawl He Winds Us The 

 Shot Misery We Find Blood Hopes Revived Pursuit Is it 

 Him ? Disappointment Elephant Pits The Fate of the Rogue. 



CHAPTER V. 

 HOG-HUNTING . 64 



Antiquity of Hog-hunting Celebrated Hog-hunters The Charms 

 of the Sport Comparison of Hog-hunting with Fox-hunting 

 Qualifications to ensure Success Some Rules and Axioms Descrip- 

 tion of Ground Spears Modes of Using Measurements of Hog 

 A Savage Boar Camel Ripped A Queer Mount On the Pig's 

 Back Determined Courage of a Boar Biting Sows Boar's Lips 

 Pinned by Spear ' Parachute ' Solitary Chase A Kill on Foot 

 Horses used in Hog-hunting ' Parachute's ' Love of the Sport 

 Concluding Remarks. 



CHAPTER VI. 



FAREWELL TO THE SPEAR 93 



A Last Day The Meet Offer of a Mount The Caster 'Not 

 so Black as he's Painted Exciting Bit of News Efforts to Dis- 

 lodge the Game ' Muzzle ' Change our Tactics The Panther 

 Breaks Race for the Spear' There's Many a Slip ' My Turn 

 Failure Success Danger of Beaters The 'Caster' Declines A 

 Beater Mauled On Foot in the Bajree 'Muzzle' Comes to the 

 Rescue Death of the Panther A Plucky Youngster The Colonel 

 and the Cubs Quotations from Major Shakespear Advice. 



