PIG-STICKING IN BENGAL 149 



INCIDENTS 



Pig, when bringing off a sudden jink, often run 

 their snouts into the ground while at full speed, 

 using this as a fulcrum to turn on. 



Chur pig have a peculiarity when hunted in grass 

 of squatting behind a bush, allowing the rider to 

 pass, and then charging in from behind, sometimes 

 jumping as high as the horse's croup. 



That fine spear, the late Archie Hills, used to say 

 that a strong -smelling boar was always a good 

 ic fighter," and I and others have noticed the same 

 thing. 



It is, of course, well known that a pig, hunted or 

 unhunted, even before he breaks, will turn out 

 another from his basha to take his place. In this 

 connection Archie Hills related a story of the biter 

 bit. One day he put up a fine boar in wheat. The 

 boar went straight to a basha and roused the 

 occupant. This proved to be a gigantic specimen, 

 who turned on the intruder, got him well under- 

 neath with his snout, and ran him off the field. The 

 spears took on the big boar, and he paid dearly for 

 his inhospitality. 



Elliot Hills and his brother Chalmers, when 

 following a hunted pig which had given them a 

 tremendous run, saw the pig suddenly drop down 

 dead. Being a fat gross beast, it was probably 

 heart. I have seen a pig break his neck, when 

 jumping a nullah, falling with his snout against 

 the opposite bank. 



The under-mentioned incident is worth recording 

 here. While a ryot was cutting his Kolye on the 

 chur, not far from Moiscoondie, he was suddenly 

 and without any provocation, attacked by a heavy 



