8o THE WILDERNESS AND JUNGLE 



the other hand, would have shown the way. 

 A wild boar strikes one as about the last 

 creature on earth to make a pet of, but I 

 remember hearing of a lady in India who 

 brought up a small wild sow that became 

 much attached to its owner. The adopted 

 one even slept under her bed and did quite 

 as well as a watch-dog, rushing at all intru- 

 ders. It used also to go out with the dogs 

 when the sahib went shooting, and was in- 

 variably first on a dead bird. There was, 

 indeed, only one slight drawback to the value 

 of this otherwise admirable pointer, and that 

 was that it always ate the bird before the 

 sahib could get to it. 



[The plan on which this book is written 

 precludes any detailed account of European 

 wild animals, but a note may be of interest on 

 the prevalence of the wild boar, which has 

 been extinct in Britain since the days of Queen 

 Elizabeth, in Belgium and France. As a 

 matter of fact, this animal roams over most 

 of Europe, though is not apparently found in 

 either Holland or Scandinavia. In all rideable 

 country in India it is etiquette to kill it only 

 with the spear, shooting it merely in ravines 

 or in jungle where the sport of pigsticking 

 would be out of the question. At Howara, 

 also, near Tangier, it has for many years been 

 killed with the spear, and I remember a Spanish 



