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his size. One or two extra are given to men 

 who carry instruments. After having received 

 the paper, many of them will take the first op- 

 portunity of slinking back to their village, and 

 appear again when the sport is over, at the time 

 of distributing the money : to counteract this, 

 they are sometimes mustered in the middle of 

 the day's sport, the papers received back, and 

 returned to them with a pencil mark on each, 

 and none are paid who do not produce the 

 marked paper. 



When arrived at the cane to be beaten, all 

 small children should be driven back, and the 

 men arranged at the opposite side of the cane to 

 where it is wished the hogs should come out; 

 they should be on the inside of the thorn fence, 

 with the gentlemen's servants regularly distributed 

 between them. They should commence beating 

 all at the same time, making as much noise as 

 possible. The hunters should place themselves 

 in such a manner as to have every part of the 

 cane watched, and every one should be in sight 

 of another to give the signal to, whenever a hog- 

 breaks cover, which is done by taking off the 

 hunting cap, and pointing it in the direction the 



