CHAPTER II. 



A TOUGH CUSTOMER. 



An old Journal Pig -sticking The Sports of the East Contrast 

 between British and Indian Sports Kamptee and the Nagpore 

 Hunt Hunting Arrangements Karlee ' Warree ' Manjee, 

 the Hunt shikari The Beat Gone Away ! A Plucky Boar 

 The Fight Broken Spears Horse Ripped The Fight Re- 

 sumed on Foot Death of the Boar Narrow Escape. 



c ELEC olim meminisse juvabit !' Such is the 

 legend inscribed on the cover of an old leather- 

 backed i company order-book ' in my possession, 

 in which are written records of many pleasant 

 days' sport both at home and abroad, with rifle 

 and spear, with rod and gun. Arid truly it does 

 'rejoice one' to read over these old notes roughly 

 jotted down at the time, and they carry one back 

 to many a tiger-haunted jungle, many a vast 

 expanse of plain over which waves the yellow 

 ruinnah grass ; to swirling, rock-bestrewn stream, 

 to stretches of purple heather, to snipe and duck- 

 frequented marsh, and to green fields of turnips 



