OF THE SPEAR 

 front of the centre of the line rode 

 Jack Austin on his keen little Waler 

 mare, " Lovelei," and Major Calvert 

 on his Arab " Kismet," and in close 

 attendance rode " old " Baynton, the 

 collector of the district, a veteran 

 hand at the game, and still hard to 

 beat as a straight-going, deadly man 

 after a pig. 



The ladies were not yet out, but 

 an elephant had been left at their 

 camp to bring them on when ready. 



The line slowly and quietly beat 

 its way through the long grass of the 

 Kadir plain, working gradually away 

 from the tree jungle and the nullahs 

 that fringe the edge of it. A few 

 small pig were soon afoot, but 

 nothing that Baynton considered 

 rideable. 



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