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author points out) have to mind how you do it!* Full directions 
are given on this subject in the chapter referred to (Chap. IX.), 
but the pages which concern us most are those which deal with 
the natural history of the Wild Boar. These are full of interest, 
and we only regret that want of space will not permit of our 
making extracts. 
There is a capital account of a pitched battle between a Boar 
and a Tiger (p. 72), as observed by a friend of the author, from 
a hiding-hole near a pool where the wild beasts came to water. 
The result showed the extraordinary muscular power of an old 
Boar, and the extensive nature of the injuries he is capable of 
inflicting with his terrible ‘“‘tushes.”” He is indeed a foe well 
worthy of the hunter’s steel, and to vanquish him is to ensure 
a triumph not realized in overcoming any other animal. 
But it is not on this account only that Capt. Baden-Powell 
sounds the praises of boar-hunting. There are other and 
weightier reasons why it should be encouraged and practised 
wherever the “‘ quarry ”’ can be found by English sportsmen. 
“ Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the 
training and formation of a soldier, ‘ pig-sticking ’ tends to give a man what 
is called a ‘ stalker’s eye,’ but which par eacellence is the soldier's eye. It 
teaches him to keep looking about him, both near and far, so that by 
practice he gets to notice objects in the far distance almost before an 
ordinary man can distinguish them even when pointed out tohim. In 
difficulties of ground he will learn to keep a look-out to the front, and not 
only see his way over present obstacles, but also the best line to take when 
these have been successfully disposed of. The habit of looking for and 
noticing the smallest signs of pig teach a man to note and carry in his 
mind those little marks by which he can often obtain important informa- 
tion, and will always get the country more or less mapped into his brain by 
a succession of insignificant signs and landmarks, the value of which can 
be duly appreciated when he has once had to perform a reconnaissance by 
night, or to work through an unknown country in time of hostilities.” 
Coming from a soldier and a sportsman, this argument 
furnishes a good raison d’étre for a very entertaining and 
instructive volume. 

* “ Jinking” is another term peculiar to this sport, and signifies turning 
sharply to the right or left when on the point of being speared while going 
at full speed. Tracking is termed “ pugging,” and the animal’s tusks are 
known to the craft as ‘‘ tushes,” 
