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only cost her owner one hundred arid fifty rupees, 

 or about fifteen pounds. This mare afterwards 

 won steeple- chases at Secunderabad, Bangalore, 

 and Madras, against some of the best horses in 

 Southern India. A horse is, however, as a rule, 

 what his rider makes him, and the saying that 

 ' there is no bond of union so close as that between 

 a horse and his rider,' is a very true one. Horses 

 learn to love hog-hunting, and take their part in 

 it, and an old hog-hunter will turn with and 

 follow a boar like a dog often even if riderless. 

 My old horse that I have alluded to used to do 

 this in a most ludicrous manner. On one occa- 

 sion we had come down a i buster ' at a nullah, 

 and he got away from me ; following the pig with 

 ears laid back and making grabs at it with his 

 teeth whenever he got a chance. The other riders 

 could not spear until they had actually beaten 

 him off with their spear-shafts. 



There are scores and scores of men more fitted 

 by far than your humble servant, kind reader, to 

 describe the noble sport of hog-hunting, but few, 

 I venture to hope, who loved it more, and pursued 

 it with more zeal and delight in spite of many 

 difficulties and a very, very shallow purse. I do 

 not offer these lines for the perusal of experienced 

 sportsmen, but in the hope that any young man 



