HUNTING DIRECTORY. 285 



Chase of the Boar. 



every person that heard of it came to see it. It was 

 hung up at a venison dealer's in Old Bond Street. The 

 concourse of people was so great, that the man could not 

 get out of, or others enter, his shop. It is to day (January 

 15, 1819) being cut up into forty pieces, to be disposed 

 of to various friends; and I have given the skin, head, 

 ike. all unmutilated, to Bullock ; to shew them, with the 

 account of the different balls he received ere he would 

 resign to hounds or men. He is by no means the largest 

 boar I have killed ; but he is a terrible looking fellow, 

 more danoerous than one much older, for then their 

 tushes grow thicker, become curved, and the animal is 

 more inactive. He wounded many of the hounds, but 

 only killed, I believe, three. A couple of vermin terriers 

 plagued him the most, as he could not get his tushes to 

 bear on them. The last final shaft was a lingo, which, 

 I see, broke three of his ribs and passed through him. 

 The number of balls he received I shall examine and 

 relate. I understand, he stood a run of full forty miles. 

 But I am sure I ran one at least one hundred and forty, 

 and then he was not done up, though constantly view^ed 

 from half past eleven till past ten the next day, relays 

 of hounds being uncoupled close at him at every three 

 or four hours. What other animal can shew such game 

 and bottom ? 



We dine to-day a party on his loin or saddle, which 

 was where he received his death wound. The wound, 

 as I have already observed, was inflicted by a lingo, 

 which is a piece of iron or lead, formed something like 

 a weaver's shuttle, of the weight of two or three balls, 

 and made to fit the calibre of the gun. It is a sort of 



