CHAPTER V. 



HOG-HUNTING. 



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 

 Description of Ground Spears Modes of Using Measurements 

 of Hog A Savage Boar Camel Hipped 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 ' Para- 

 chute's ' Love of the Sport Concluding Remarks. 



* Oh ! let not sage or moralist our well -loved sport decry, 

 We'll claim a warrant for the game from all antiquity ; 

 'Twas thus Meleager's prowess in the chase was tried, 

 'Twas thus Ascanius' youth was fired, 

 'Twas thus Adonis died.' 



YES, every schoolboy knows that it was out hog- 

 hunting that Adonis, the mythological type of 

 manly beauty, met his death, and all those who 

 have heard the magic word c Ride !' as the sounder 

 of hog breaks, will feel that he met his death at 

 the hands of no unworthy foe. Was not Meleager 

 too the i captain ' of the Calydonian Hunt, the 



