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pricking Mr. Going's leg on the off side ! To 

 further corroborate the truth of this story, I will 

 venture, with many apologies to them for doing 

 so, to name two other gentlemen who took part 

 in the scuffle, viz., Lieutenant (now Major) West 

 R.H.A., and Ensign (now Major) Chalmers of the 

 79th Highlanders. I regret that I forget the names 

 of others present on the occasion. 



During this same trip I also heard of another 

 instance of a boar's courage. Lieutenant (now 

 Major) West, R.H.A., speared a very large boar 

 (a thirty-seven incher, I think), his spear stuck 

 for a moment, and the boar, with the spear in 

 him, charged at his antagonist, and actually stood 

 up on his hind legs with his fore-feet on the 

 sportsman's horse's withers in his endeavour to 

 reach his foe. 



A dear old friend and keen hog-hunter once 

 told me the following anecdote, which I give as 

 nearly as possible in his own words. ' We were 

 riding a very fine boar that had every chance of 

 saving his life, for he was unwounded, on bad 

 ground, and within sixty yards at most of thick 

 cover. He suddenly turned on the foremost 

 rider, whose horse, swerving, caused him to miss 

 his spear. The boar then charged his second 

 foeman, who was my servant, carrying a spare 

 spear, mounted on a very valuable Arab. To my 



