RIDING A PIG 71 



wounded when quite fresh, and the longer he has 

 to stiffen and feel his wound the better. I give 

 you several experiences of my own in this book, 

 but I have never had to tackle an un wounded boar, 

 so I will give you a couple of instances which 

 happened to others. 



My father, the late Major- General Wardrop, 

 going in on foot once, Poonah way, into a cactus 

 patch after an unwounded boar, was knocked over. 

 He was then charged again by the hog, but he hit 

 him on the snout with his clenched fist. The boar 

 went off, and my father escaped with a badly- 

 ripped arm. 



A friend writes to me from Saugor : 



Some years ago Colonel Manifold, I.M.S., was civil 

 surgeon at Rampur, and in charge of the gaol there, which, 

 at that time was cleared for cleaning and repairs. A boar, 

 one day, during severe floods, took shelter in the empty 

 gaol. The gaoler at once incarcerated him, and sent word 

 to Manifold who had a round with the boar single-handed, 

 inflicting a skin wound with a blunt native spear. He then 

 wired to Bareilly for his friend Maxwell in the 2nd Lancers. 



Maxwell was delayed by duty for two days. Meanwhile, 

 Manifold fed the hog with much grain. 



When Maxwell came the idea was to net the pig, and 

 take him to some rideable ground. All the exits from the 

 gaol, bar one, were blocked with stout barricades of scaffolds 

 and planks : each barricade was garrisoned with sepoys ; 

 and Kunjars spread a net across the remaining opening. 



On being disturbed, the boar scattered one of the 

 barricades, garrison and all, like paper, and then went 

 through the net, also like paper. He then took cover in a 

 small inclosure from which all efforts to dislodge him were 

 fruitless. 



The two spears with an orderly went to the entrance 

 while stones were thrown through the windows at the boar. 

 He soon charged and was missed by two spears, but impaled 



