42 THE OUT-STATION; OR, 



adversary, and as they knock him over, to throw up 

 their heads at the same moment with fearful force, 

 inflicting a contused wound that would probably dis- 

 able the receiver for life : to say nothing of the gash 

 they are capable of inflicting with their tusks, which 

 are tremendously long and sharp. 



Should we be rendered insensible by one, the 

 others would incontinently devour us, so it is not 

 altogether such child's play as may appear to the 

 reader on perusal. 



Tired at length, and out of breath, we give up the 

 chase ; as for carrying the dead pigs away with us, 

 we would if we could, but they are too numerous 

 we have killed upwards of a dozen; so picking out the 

 plumpest, we sling him on a pole, soon cut from the 

 nearest bamboo tree, and placing either end of it on 

 two of our followers* shoulders, we trudge home to 

 quarters, calling in our way to pick up the bear 

 captives of the morning, and arrive in time to " turn 

 in" just as our little bantam greets the opening day 

 with his first " cock-a-doodle-doo !" 



