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is hot, experience shows there is Httle pain from 

 wounds. 



Of course this question of running must affect 

 a boar's fighting capacity though not his will. 

 Jack Johnson, if made to run half a mile the second 

 before he entered the ring would not be champion 

 of the world ; especially if his opponents were 

 armed with knuckle-dusters. 



Pig who see men much will always avoid them. 

 The more a country is hunted the more is this the 

 case. In Mr. Crawford's preserves the pig are left 

 alone to run riot, they never see a man. He is a 

 strange animal to be attacked at sight. 



Some hog are curious, cantankerous fellows, and 

 must be quaint jungle companions. Toothache 

 or unrequited love is the cause, I daresay. Charlie 

 Gough guarded outside Jharina Jheel once from 

 6 A.M. to 2 P.M. seeing nothing while we harried the 

 place inside and had good sport. The only boar 

 that broke to Gough came out of the jheel for about 

 four hundred yards. He saw an empty bullock-cart 

 standing on the maidan ; he trotted solemnly up to 

 this, gave it cuts one and two on the wheels, and 

 then trotted sulkily back to the jheel again. 



Tenacity of Life, — The tenacity of life of a boar 

 is extraordinary. The idea of a pig getting away 

 wounded to die in pain is hateful ; with every care 

 it must happen occasionally. If there is any 

 consolation, it is in the thought that pig do recover 

 from terrible wounds. I have several times seen 

 a pig killed that had only three legs. In the Terai 

 I killed a pig who bid fair to recover from a gun- 

 shot wound, apparently some days old, that had 

 taken away nearly all one shoulder-blade. 



