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and which instantly charged, the dog rushing back and 

 getting between the legs of her master. 



Three times the pig charged the dog and three times 



it got both barrels of No. 4, finally clearing off 



altogether. Being close to camp, the rifle was taken 



down and the spoor followed, and when again come up 



to, the pig charged for the fourth time, and received a 



bullet in the brain. When skinned very few of the 



pellets had penetrated far into the flesh, but it was so 



badly contused that blood-poisoning must have set in. 



Dogs are useful not only for the hunting of antelope 



and pig, but they are almost essential to the small-game 



hunter, to ferret out and put up the numerous furred 



and feathered beasts and birds, to find them when shot 



or run them down when wounded, to go out on boggy 



places or swim into lagoons to bring out the dead 



fowl. 



In many parts of the world, rivers, pools, and lagoons 

 are swarming with crocodile or alligator, and if a dog is 

 sent in, it stands a poor chance of ever getting out 

 again ; indeed, fowl have been pulled under and 

 devoured by these monsters, and on one memorable 

 day, out of thirteen duck brought down, only three 

 were recovered, and these three were winged and got 

 ashore. 



This was in Africa ; in South America we have 

 frequently seen birds, both dead and wounded, 

 deliberately taken almost under the nose of the 

 shooter. 



