234 SPORTING 



But, to return to my own adventure. The 

 shikari now came up and surveyed the dead 

 boar with astonishment, for he said he had 

 been all his life in the jungles and had 

 never seen a larger one ; the coolies were 

 called to cut up and prepare the flesh, 

 which process commenced while I amused 

 myself knocking over a few partridges, 

 which I found at the other end of the 

 barley patch. 



