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concealed ourselves. Soon we heard the noise of 

 the tom-toms, etc., and the shouts of the beaters 

 as they advanced towards us along the hill-side, 

 and presently we saw one of our look-out men 

 posted on the top of the hill frantically waving 

 his flag. 



I ought to have mentioned that we always 

 employed a few men provided with little red and 

 white flags as l look-out men,' and it was their 

 duty on seeing the pig to wave their flags silently 

 in the direction they were going. By their doing 

 this we knew where to look for the pig (often 

 difficult to see in thick cover), and all risk of 

 their being headed by the noise of shouting was 

 avoided. These look-out men were generally 

 posted in trees, or on a rocky eminence from 

 whence they could obtain a good view of the 

 covert and the surrounding country. 



Looking in the direction towards which the 

 flag was pointing, we soon descried the dark 

 backs of a couple of pig blobbing along through 

 the brushwood, amidst which they every now and 

 then disappeared. As soon as they got within 

 some one hundred and fifty yards of our station, I 

 shouted, 4 Ride,'* and. selecting the biggest (a 



* Rule viii. A captain to be chosen by vote. ix. In the field 

 the captain to have the entire management of the beat, etc. x. On 

 the pig breaking, no one to give chase till the captain or acting cap- 



