Sporting Trips of a Subaltern 



light competition spear at the big meeting, and 

 won the cup against forty-five horses. The finish of 

 this 1896-97 season showed 110 boar and 16 par ah 

 stag killed ; and though the records had been kept 

 continuously since 1866, no year up till then had 

 seen more than 96 boar speared, while our parah 

 were ten in excess of the previous best. 



A panther was also bagged with the spear later 

 on, and I believe gave all concerned a very warm 

 time, even taking a ride for a bit on the quarters 

 of the hon. sec.'s,horse. 



This finished my pig-sticking, and with it my 

 Indian "shikar" for good, and the beginning of 

 April saw me still with my arm in a sling, starting 

 for Bombay to collect my stores, etc., for an 

 expedition to Somaliland. 



