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or in company ; though you may very probably 

 miss him on jinks for a long way farther. This 

 means that you are doing your utmost to burst the 

 pig ; if you let him get his second wind, he will go 

 on for miles. If you have a lot of obstacles and 

 heavy jhow jungle to negotiate, the run will take 

 proportionately longer. A party of the 13th 

 Hussars last year took two and a half hours and 

 seven falls over a cramped country before they 

 killed their pig ; all honour to a good performance. 

 If you have to canter for'ard to a holloa to try and 

 view your pig, you are apt to have a long run. But 

 getting away to a quick galloping start you ought 

 to run into your pig as I have said. Ordinary 

 roughish country and girth -high grass will not 

 affect the issue ; they are, if anything, in favour of 

 the horse. Over real rough country, bad nullahs, 

 sheet rocks, heavy jhow, and other such obstacles, 

 a pig will score heavily. But given ordinary good 

 country he cannot live with a really fast horse. As 

 a rule the pace of a pig varies inversely to his 

 size. 



One of the runs which I recall with the greatest 

 pleasure was when we were beating an outlying 

 strip of grass at the end of Jharhina Jheel. Between 

 the strip and the jheel is a hundred yards of beautiful 

 turf. The jheel had a lot of water in it, and was 

 almost impossible to ride. 



There were half a dozen of us out ; we had a good 

 boar in the strip of grass, but could not make him 

 break. We stood all along the edge expecting a 

 quick thing, and harried the grass with a couple of 

 elephants. My luck was in, for the boar broke at 

 full speed dead in front of me, heading for the jheel 

 and dear life. I was riding Souvenir, a very fast and 



