CHAPTER III 



PIG- STICKING 



THE Englishman says : " Three p's make 

 Hfe worth living in India : pig-sticking, 

 port and polo." And he places pig-stick- 

 ing first on the list. I cannot entirely agree 

 with him here, for, personally, polo appealed 

 most strongly to me; but we won't quarrel 

 over a question of taste. 



" Pig-sticking " is not commonly looked 

 upon so much from the point of view of hunting 

 as from that of horsemanship. 



We were living in the Government buildings 

 at Jaipur. We were in the midst of delightfully 

 friendly people, who took endless trouble to 

 chase away those sad thoughts which inevitably 

 beset every German who finds himself for the 

 first time obliged to light the candles of his 

 Christmas Tree far from his native hearth. 



And the efforts of our hosts were indeed 



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