ANECDOTES OF HOGS. 263 



Sometimes hunters take their stand too near a 

 cane that is beating, and have their horses 

 suddenly and unexpectedly ripped. 



I remember a horse that was thought one of 

 the best hog hunters in the country, being so much 

 alarmed by such a circumstance, that he could 

 never after be made go near a hog. When I was 

 once trying for hogs in a bulrush jungle, not far 

 from Calcutta, an elderly gentleman came out in 

 a tonjohn, (a kind of open chair carried by four 

 men at a time he had twelve with him to relieve 

 one another,) to see the sport : he was frequently 

 cautioned to keep farther off from the jungle, but 

 he would not attend to it : at last several hogs 

 bolted at the same instant close to the tonjohn, 

 upset it with the old gentleman and several of 

 his carriers into the mud, which created much 

 laughter and amusement at the time, and was a 

 sore subject with the gentleman ever after. 



I was one of a party of eight gentlemen, on a 

 sporting excursion at Lye, near the city of Patna, 

 on the banks of the Soane river. Returning one 

 morning from shooting, we met with a very large 

 boar in a rhur, which we did not fire at, or 

 molest, as several of the gentlemen were very fond 



