BULLET AND SHOT 



and their vicinities, shooting a pig is as serious a 

 crime in the eyes of sportsmen as vulpicide in a 

 hunting county at home ; and pig-stickers, like 

 fox-hunters, become so sentimental upon the sub- 

 ject, that nothing short of self-preservation would 

 induce them to shoot their favourite game anywhere, 

 however impossible the country might be for the 

 prosecution of the legitimate sport. 



The late Sir J. D. G., who was a good all-round 

 sportsman and devoted pig-sticker, was upon one 

 occasion beating sholahs with a friend of mine 

 on the Neilgherries (where pig-sticking is never 

 attempted) for sambur and muntjac. 



During one of the beats, a big boar dashed 

 straight down the path on which Sir J. was 

 posted, and directly towards him. Sir J. could 

 not bear the idea of shooting the animal, but he 

 well knew that the pig would not move an inch 

 out of his way, but would, if permitted, certainly 

 cut him over ; so when the owner of those wicked, 

 little, twinkling eyes, and dentine razors, was close 

 upon him, he shot him dead, thus incurring a good 

 deal of subsequent chaff, I believe, since his opinions 

 upon the subject of pig-shooting were well known, 

 as he did not hesitate to express them. 



I have, upon more than one occasion, when bison 

 shooting, at times too when to have fired a shot at 

 other game would inevitably have ruined my chance 

 of success with the nobler animal, been menaced 

 with a charge by a boar, which, however, in the two 

 instances which occur to my memory, went off at 

 last without attacking me. Had the beast in either 



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