Buck and Boar round Meerut 



however, came round like lightning, and met the 

 boar's onslaught without, however, checking him 

 in the least, and in another second horse and rider 

 were on the ground, and the boar away past 

 them and into a wood. Here we four remaining 

 combatants lost him temporarily till one of us 

 came on him suddenly round a tree ; another 

 ferocious charge followed and the boar, jumping 

 up, sent a fourteen-stone man and a big horse 

 over like a nine-pin, getting a spear broken in him 

 as he did so, but gashing the horse. We now got 

 him on to some more open ground, but he was such 

 a monster that no one could spear and hold him. 

 We had to adopt the somewhat low-down tactics 

 of dashing at him from behind, spearing and 

 galloping on to circle round and charge again. 

 A good spear soon finished him, and he sank 

 and died without a sound. The dimensions of 

 this gallant boar far exceed those of any boar I 

 ever saw killed in a pig-sticking country; they 

 were as follows: height at withers, 33 inches; 

 weight, 248 Ibs. ; length, 6 feet 2 inches. Another 

 good boar, 31 inches, succumbed before lunch, 

 while the day's sport was concluded with the 

 death of a 32-incher. All these boar weighed 

 over 180 Ibs. Truly a day of monsters, though 

 No. 1 far eclipsed the others, and we were all 

 glad that Winwood, who had so sportingly set 

 the ball rolling by giving him the butt, had 



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