Buck and Boar round Meerut 



last viewed my boar. At that instant a precipitous 

 drop and hole appeared across our front. Had 

 Peacock had his head out he would have somehow 

 saved the situation ; but, alas ! I had his head 

 up, and in another moment, down and head over 

 heels we went. Peacock was up in a moment, 

 and, having no boar before him to follow, stood. 

 I was up, too, but on trying to mount found I 

 couldn't use my left arm. As I subsequently dis- 

 covered, my collar-bone had gone in two places, 

 in addition to a dislocated thumb. This ten 

 days before the Kardir Cup ! I am not pre- 

 sumptuous enough to think I should have had 

 much chance ; but I had two horses entered, and 

 one of them, Peacock, was as good as any he could 

 meet. I was very efficiently bound up by my 

 comrades, and returned to Meerut, partly on a 

 pad elephant, and partly on an " ekka," the rough, 

 two-wheeled, country cart. It took from 1.30 p.m. 

 till just after midnight to get home, and what 

 with the jolting of the cart, which made my broken 

 bones grind together, and the cold at night, I was 

 pretty miserable by the time I rang up the orderly 

 at the Meerut hospital. 



Out of the seven of us present at this pig- 

 hunt, five were damaged, and two laid up in our 

 bungalows, while the Kardir Cup was run off. A 

 third, our popular hon. sec., Mr. Gillman, E.H.A., 

 broke several fingers, but was just able to hold a 



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