I70 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



down on the spine, and the boar rolls over 

 dead. 



There are infinite varieties of incident in 

 the chase, and the ground over which it is 

 carried on. The latter is mostly rough and 

 stony ; and it may be said that, generally 

 speaking, the faster you ride over bad ground 

 the less likely you are to fall. On the whole, 

 I am surprised to recollect so few fatal acci- 

 dents, or even serious falls ; yet I have seen 

 horses roll over like shot rabbits on rough 

 ground when the stones were so thick that it 

 seemed as if one's brains (if any) must be 

 dashed out. 



And so the days and the weeks go on till 

 the increasing heat reminds us of the joys of 

 cooler climates, or, it may be, we go off to 

 Kashmir to shoot markhor, or to Central India 

 for big game ; but, go where we will, we shall 

 never find sport like pig-sticking, and whatever 

 be our opinion of the second half of the board- 

 school boy's peroration to his essay on the 

 pig, we shall all agree with the first, " The 

 pig is interesting when alive, and refreshing 

 when dead." 



If this be true of the porker, how much more 

 of the gamest of game beasts of the chase. 



