Buck and Boar round Meerut 



off after another boar. C. 104 soon caught him, 

 but imagining him to be a new form of tent-peg, 

 to which game he was accustomed, took me past 

 him with a rush ; the next horseman also missed 

 his spear, and the third got the coveted first prod. 

 On our way home we put up a " sounder " of pig 

 with several fine boar ; unfortunately we all started, 

 through some mistake, after the same one. He 

 escaped in the Borga Gunga, and the result was 

 nil. 



As I wanted to deal very gently with C. 104, 

 I started to ride him in the cool of the morning 

 next day, intending to change horses soon and 

 send him back to Meerut by easy stages. We 

 again had a beat in the vicinity of the Bora 

 Gunga, and a fine boar soon broke immediately 

 in front of me. It was " up to me " to stop him 

 before he reached the sanctuary ; but this I just 

 failed to do. I then rode the old horse back to 

 the line, and called for Peacock. At that instant, 

 however, a second boar broke, and the same per- 

 formance was repeated. Feeling very annoyed 

 at this double loss, I now determined to get on 

 my fresh steed, and cantered back for the purpose ; 

 nearing the line, however, I almost rode on to a 

 grand boar, and there was no choice but to pursue 

 him in his turn on C. 104. This was a heavier 

 pig, and with a great effort I came up with him 

 barely twenty yards from the swamp. Here he 



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