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THE SPORT OF RAJAHS 

 was keen to tell his tale of personal 

 adventure with the Indian pig. 

 Here one was stating how his troop- 

 mare, C i6, had turned her tail upon 

 the advancing foe, and with her iron- 

 shod heels had sent his front teeth 

 rattling down his throat. And there 

 another, a budding Munchausen, was 

 relating how he stood the attack of 

 "not only one, but four bloomin' 

 swine, all of a go," and how all 

 single-handed and alone he had 

 beaten them off. It was a day that 

 was talked of for months afterwards 

 in the regiment ; and though this 

 one experience can have done no 

 more than give the men a momentary 

 taste of the ecstasy of a fighting 

 gallop, pig-sticking is nevertheless 

 par excellence a soldier's sport ; it 

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