36 MODERN PIG-STICKING chap. 



common sense, and do not, I think, compare with 

 the artifices of a fox. Perhaps with a boar the run 

 is too short and pressing to allow of much guile. 



Choice of Locality, — In Central India there is not 

 much doubt as to where pig will be found. In 

 quantity though not in quality they are inferior 

 to their Northern brethren. Each pig is more or 

 less accurately located and will be surely found in a 

 certain hill or " sendhi ban." 



In the Northern Hunts, however, the country 

 is more extensive. The Meerut hunting-grounds, 

 for instance, extend over between two and three 

 hundred square miles. Pig are scattered all over 

 this area, but they are only in any numbers at a 

 given time in localities of their own selecting. 

 There may be grass jungles, j heels, dak, and jhow 

 jungles all available within a few miles of each 

 other. Happy is the man, sapiens rerum cognoscere 

 causas, skilled enough in his knowledge of the 

 working of the porcine mind to predict where their 

 choice will fall. 



I will give you of my own experience, and I am 

 sorry I cannot tell you more. 



First and foremost, regard the weather. Wet 

 weather, provided the ground is rideable, is a god- 

 send to the hog-hunter. Pig then leave the heavy 

 covers, and are always to be found in light riding 

 country : they can rootle freely, and they 

 thoroughly enjoy the cool and the damp. Nearly 

 all the best days hunting I can recall have been 

 after rain in unsettled weather. This does not 

 apply to wet weather when it is really cold. At 

 such times pig invariably go to the j heels or the 

 thickest cover they can to keep warm. 



