4 BEATING SUGAR-CANES FOR A HOG 



bullocks have broken loose, and the equally frightened ploughmen have scattered in all direc- 

 tions. In the foreground, at the border of the sugar kliet, is a well from which the cultivators 

 are irrigating the land, the bucket or leathern trough being suspended from a long pole pivoted 

 on an upright, and given a leverage by a weight of mud at its farther end. In the distance is 

 the pig-sticker's bungalow with a grove of " toddy-trees," or palmyra?, to the left. To the 

 right, beyond the elephant, is a banian-tree, covering a considerable area. The dogs in pursuit 

 are a couple of pariahs, or village dogs, belonging to no one in particular, but often of use in 

 bringing the pig to bay, or, by giving tongue, indicating the course he has taken when concealed 

 from the sportsman's sight. 



