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 ""'""•^'-^-"■^-^^^^ 
 
 THE SPORT or RAJAHS 
 
/ 
 
?ii 
 
 I 
 
 The 
 
 Sport 
 of 
 
 Rajahs 
 
 By 
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. R. S. S. BADEN- POWELL, 
 F.R.G.S. 
 
 TORONTO: 
 
 George N. RIorano & Company. Limited 
 
 1900 
 

 Entered according to Act uf flip Parliament of Cannda. in tho 
 year one thousand nine hundred, by (iKORGE N. Moraxo 
 * Company, Limited, at the Dejiartment of Apiculture. 
 
THE SPORT OF RAJAHS 
 
 ill the 
 
 0RANI5 
 
 nUiire. 
 
 Ill the snuking-ro^^m at XoiTeye 
 Court, the other night, wo had a 
 great pig-eticking- " buck." 
 
 As is usual \vh..re a f e ,v Britons are 
 gathered together, sevt-al of the party 
 had visited India and knew something 
 of the subject, but it struck me forci- 
 bly how ignorant, as a rule, are home- 
 keeping sportsmen of this and kindred 
 Eastern sports. 
 
 They e-em to understand that some 
 ?'ort of sunshine of sport lies behind 
 the veil of distance which separates 
 England from India, but it is only oc- 
 casionally that a ray breaks through 
 the cloud-in the shape of a book or 
 article— and gives them a glint of the 
 glamour that lies beyond. India, in 
 the matter of sport, has stood the test 
 of time far better than any of her 
 rivals. In early ages India and Am- 
 erica proved equally attractive to ad- 
 venturous sportsmen. But in America 
 bison, grizzly, deer, and Redskin came 
 to be gradually and effectively wiped 
 out under the deadly bead-drawing of 
 " Old Rube " and his kind. 
 
 Then arose South Africa as a rival, 
 and although her day has been a happv 
 one, its sun is setting; ere the next 
 
THE HPORT OF K4.IAIIM 
 
 century has well begrun, advancing 
 civilization and improved breechload- 
 ers will have cleared off the elephant, 
 rhino, lion, and buck that have made 
 -Africa so happy a huntingr-ground 
 these past glxty years. 
 
 Yet India still maintains her head 
 of game, and bids fair to do so for 
 many years to come. From the North, 
 ■With its Oves ammon and poll, bears 
 and ibex, to the South, with its tiger, 
 buffalo, sambur, and boar, -the sports- 
 man finds game worthy of his steel, 
 In addition to abundance of the lesser 
 kind of buck and bird, and flsh and 
 fowl. Buit, as an old doggerel has it. 
 
 The sport that beats them o'er and o'er 
 Is (that wherein we liunt the boar. 
 
 Pig-sticking is the acknowledged 
 king of Eastern sports, and there are 
 many reasons why it should and must 
 be so. 
 
 For one thing, i-t demands the assist- 
 ance of the horse, and this in itself 
 commends it more particularly to the 
 Anglo-Saxon race. Then it Is one of 
 the few sports in which the hunter is 
 almost alw.ays aesoclated with others 
 of his kind. In most Wg-game ex- 
 peditions the shooter Is attended only 
 by a few trackers or beaters— more 
 guns would spoil sport; and, although 
 there may be, and is, a certain charm 
 for a time in such solitary life, yet 
 
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THE HPORT OF RAJAHS 7 
 
 eventually the sportsman cannot but 
 long for companionship of his fellows 
 In his eveningr camp. Nor Is it good 
 for a man to become accustomed to 
 a solitary life; Englishmen are al- 
 ready misanthropical and reserved 
 enough in all conscience, without such 
 further draining, in pig-atlcking, on 
 the other hand, -the hungers live, and 
 move, and hunt in parties; and yet 
 mdlvidual excellence is as necessary 
 as ever to success, while it gains the 
 additional spice born of friendly riv- 
 alry with one's fellows. 
 
 Again, the risks and chances, which 
 after all form a great part of the 
 charm of most wild sports, are In pig- 
 sticking incomparably greater than 
 those In ordinary tiger-shooting; that 
 is to say, tiger-shooting from an ele- 
 phant, for I do not look on that ear- 
 ned out on foot as anyi ,| g but fool- 
 hardiness, except under special cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 Moreover, the quarry Is not only fast 
 and crafty, but he Is also plucky, pow- 
 erful, and cruel; he enters fully into 
 the spirit of the chase, and he will 
 generally give you a good fight as well 
 as a good run for your money. 
 
 That pig-stlcking has an affinity to 
 the sport of all true British sports- 
 men-viz.. fox-hunting-cannot be de- 
 nied, but that there exists a necknand- 
 reck resemblance between them is not 
 
8 TIIK MI'OltT 0|- ItA.l ill,<4 
 
 SO easy to see. Yet much midnight 
 oil and gas, lirjuiJ and tobacco smoke, 
 have been consumed in ountry-houae 
 billiard-roomsi over the disicussion and 
 comparison of their respective merits. 
 As a matter of faot, pig-atickiny may 
 equally claim an affinity wMh polo .and 
 with racing. And to the glorious at- 
 tractions of these it adds a taste of 
 the bes't of all hunt?— namely, the pur- 
 suit, with a good 'veapo i In your hand, 
 of an enemy whom you want to kill. 
 In pig-sticking every man rides to 
 hunt, whereas in fox-h-miing the ma- 
 jcrity (.although for some occult rea- 
 son they will seldom own to it) hunt 
 to ride. The firsit part of a pig-slick- 
 ing run partakes rather j.f the nature 
 of a point-to-polr.t race, since each 
 man is endeavouring to be first -to 
 come up with the pig, and so to gain 
 the honours of the run; and, while 
 keeping one eye on the object in view, 
 he has to keep the other on the doings 
 of his rivals, so far as the elation of 
 a glorious gallop will alh^w him. 
 
 When -the " first spear " has been 
 ■won, the dodging and fuming and 
 Quick rallies required for fighting the 
 bear have no little resemblan.ce to the 
 g-alloping melee of the polo-field, till, 
 with your worser passions roused as 
 the grizzled old tusker pits himself 
 against you, you meet charge with 
 charge, and, blind to all else but the 
 
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 THE NPOKT or It A.l.il|>> 
 
 9 
 
 strong: and angered foe b^^fore yuu. 
 with youi- good sp-Mi- in your hand, 
 you ruKh for blood with all the ecstasy 
 of a tight to tht death. And then : — 
 
 All's blood, and <ltist, iiiid gruutod curses. 
 
 Well— thi.s is a difteren't thing from 
 the pleasm-able enjoyment to be 
 derived from a gallop with hounds in 
 a peaceful Engli.sh country. Yet in 
 the Indian sport— for all its excitement 
 —you do not get the home surround- 
 ings, the stretching gallop over fences 
 and grass, the keen air, the neighbour- 
 ly pageant, and all the halo of Old 
 Knglishness that go to make fox-hunt- 
 ing the lovable sport it is. Indeed it 
 is only after testing other sports that 
 you really appreciate to the full the 
 beauty of this more homely one. 
 
 I suppose that in all the notable 
 events of a man's life he remembers-- 
 his fir.st better than any subsequent 
 experience. On me personally my first 
 hog-hunting day is very indelibly im- 
 pressed; not that it was a specially 
 c\entful day as hog-hunting days go. 
 but the novelty o fthe sport appealed 
 to me very forcibly, and the picture 
 remains. I Bee now the eunny yellonv 
 grass jungle, and the brown, strong- 
 shadowed coolies beating through it 
 with their discordant jangle of crie«s 
 and drums. Suddenly a "sounder" 
 of smallish pig tumble out and file 
 
10 
 
 THE MPORT OF RAJAHS 
 
 away across the open. My first view 
 of wild pig, and a most disappointing 
 one! Was this, then, the " miffhty 
 boar" they talked of bo much? But 
 a moment later a form, that at first 
 looked like that of a donkey, caught 
 my eye as ue stood surveying the 
 country from the edge of the Jungle. 
 ThiB was a boar. He was watching 
 one of our keerieet beglnnena rest- 
 lessly hovering about in a way that 
 would have successfully headed back 
 any timid-minded animal; but this 
 boar was an old warrior; with an 
 inquisitive look he ateipped into the 
 open and trotted towards our trio; a 
 moment later he started into a louping 
 gallop with ears pricked forward and 
 head low, and before our friend could 
 manage to turn his spear in the 
 enemy's direction the pig had dashed 
 him, and had sent eteed and rider 
 rolling in the dust. Then he turned 
 in, cut his horse's legs from under 
 with a knowing shake cf his head, 
 and trotted gaily back to the cover,' 
 whence all further persuasion failed 
 to move him. 
 
 Later on a party of us, all grIflSna, 
 got away after a full-sized pig; m 
 turn we managed to get up to him 
 and to plant our spears In his body 
 and back; but we planted and left 
 them there a.s beginners are prone to 
 do, BO that in a few minutes our pig 
 
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THE SPORT OF RAJAHH 
 
 11 
 
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 Bomewhat resembled the fretful por- 
 cupine or a giant pinouehlon, while 
 we could only ride near him empty- 
 handed. Whenever he faced ue we 
 fled, not exactly from fear, but from 
 a desire to save our teeth and noses 
 from the leaded ©pear-butts that nod- 
 ded and ©wayed above him. Finally, 
 getting tired of the sport, he opped 
 a epear, which enabled us to give him 
 Ms coup de grace. And then, to our 
 horror, we discovered that he was not 
 a "he," but a "she," after all! And 
 so heinous a crime is the killing of a 
 BOW that we swore to keep our misad- 
 venture dark, although we had every 
 excuse for our mistake, since she look- 
 ed all over like a boar and, as is ofent 
 the case with barren sows, carried 
 tushes. The crime happened many 
 years ago, but the shame of it has 
 hung over my life ever since, and now 
 in confessing to it openly fo rthe first 
 time I feel a heavy cloud Is lifted from 
 my conscience. 
 
 Among the several spears hanging 
 In honourable retirement on my wall 
 there Is one whose shaft is split for 
 some three out of its six feet of 
 length. And by that split there hangs 
 a tale. 
 
 Two of us were out In camp to- 
 gether, more for shooting than for pig- 
 sticking; still we had our horses and 
 spears with us. Our tents were pitch- 
 
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 THE HPOHT OF KA.IABIM 
 
 ed in a delightful spot on the hig-h- 
 wooded bank of the Jumna. Close to 
 us lay our hunting-ground, rough grass 
 country with occasional strips of thick 
 jungle and frequent " nullahs " or dry 
 watercourses. A preliminary glance 
 at the ground overnight revealed signs 
 of pig— in acres of upturned earth— so 
 abundantly that we were forced to 
 forego our shooting for the first day 
 in favour of trying for a boar instead. 
 Thus the early dawn found Naylor 
 and myself posted at the point of one 
 of the covers*, while the coolies began 
 to beat it from the farther end. Wait- 
 ing in a state of keen expectancy, we 
 could hear their shouts drawing 
 slowly nearer and nearer, and our 
 horses' hearts were beating quick and 
 tremulous between our knees. 
 
 Suddenly both horses fling round 
 their heads with ears pricked; they 
 are trembling in every limb with ex- 
 citement. There he stands-not thirty 
 yards from us— a grand grey boar with 
 yellow curling tushes, and his cunning 
 savage little eye glistening in the 
 broad morning sunlight. He is listen^ 
 ing to the distant sounds of the beat- 
 ers, and does not see us. We— scarce 
 daring to breath-sit motionless as 
 statues, with all our eyes, all our 
 senses fixed on him. He moves a few 
 paces forward, and pauses again to 
 listen. Will he never go? 
 
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THi: SIMHCT or It.i.lAIlM 
 
 13 
 
 At last an extra loud chorus from 
 the approaching line decides him; 
 he su-ing-s round, trots for a few paces', 
 and then brealcs into a rough tumbling 
 oanter away across the open. 
 
 Now we cautiously gather up our 
 reins, slide our feet home, and pre- 
 pare to follow as soon as he has got 
 Bufficiently far from the cover as not 
 to be tempted to double back on 
 finding himself hunted. It is a case 
 of Mr. Jorrocks counting twenty-one 
 very much drawn out, till Naylor at 
 length gives the word to go, and we 
 bound away together after the great 
 louping form now distant a good 
 quarter of a mile away over the 
 yellow grass. Our horses are mad 
 keen for the fray, and as one tears 
 through the fresh cool air all bodily 
 weigh! seems to leave one's extre- 
 mities and to be concentrated into a 
 great heartful of elation. One realises 
 then how good it is to be alive. On we 
 go with little to check our pace but an 
 occasional grip to fly ; .resently, how- 
 ver, my horse begins to show that, 
 whatever my own impressions may be 
 he, ait any rate, does not realize any 
 material change in my actual avoirdu- 
 pois, ,and I gTadually find myself drop- 
 ping behind Naylor in the race. Near- 
 er and nearer we draw to the pig, and 
 at last Naylor turns his .spear (we are 
 
14 
 
 THE aPORT OF KAJAHH 
 
 riding with the short or over-hand 
 spear) ready to take the first blood. 
 
 But there's many a slip. The old pig 
 4s still cantering along in his deliber- 
 ate yeit far-reaching stride, looking to 
 a novice as though he had not seen us; 
 but (he knows, his ears are laid back, 
 and one eye or the other Is continuousily 
 glancing behind him to watch our 
 moves. 
 
 At last Naylor's chance comes. Closer 
 and closer ho edges to the boar; an ex- ' 
 tra spurt, and he is nearly on to him. 
 The boar gives a half- turn to the right, 
 and quick as ithought Naylor's horse 
 has turned with him—but the boar's 
 half-turn is but for one stride; In the 
 next he T^ihips round at a right angle 
 to his former course, and Naylor's 
 spearhead dives bloodless into the sand 
 a yard behind him. Riding twenty 
 yards behind Naylor I am able to turn 
 my horse more rapidly on to the new 
 direotion, and I gain a- good start by 
 cutting the corner to head my quarry. 
 As I approach his intended line, the 
 boar cocks his ears, alters his course 
 a point towards me, and, as though pro- 
 jected by some hidden spring, is sud- 
 denly close under my horse's girths. My 
 speai^polnt is Just dow^n in time; by 
 good luck, rather than good manage- 
 ment, it plunges In bdtween his shoul- 
 der-blades, and I crash it down with 
 all my force, while my horse cleverly 
 
TMK Sl-OKT or RAJAHS 15 
 
 iunips th« snorting monster. But the 
 spear I3 Jammed In the boar. aiS as he 
 
 hand, and staggers onward with the 
 sha.t standi „,,^, Nor d^s he .'o' 
 
 lor h«L ' '''^^^ ^^ "P' ^"<^ ^hen Nay. 
 Lin T" ^^''^ ^""" ^^"^' '"tent J^ 
 K"l. the enraged old brute turn^ 
 
 staunchly toward, him. and With Iv"; 
 bnstie pricked, and tushe« chapping 
 
 2yZ'sT^''' ''^ enemy. %u^; 
 frl^^iten J^ ' '^'''' "*^^"^ ^yes and 
 «nd uill not face this fearsome foe 
 For a moment the pig marks the man's 
 
 discommu^ and then turns to Zm 
 »y It. At a sturdy trot he pursues his 
 
 l^J'^oT '''' '""^^^ '--ing"Ta'J 
 nLv^>; ,^""^^^^e, and yet again, does 
 Naylor try a fresh attack, always with 
 the same result. Bach defeat, how- 
 
 Tto 'r.^r^^' ''^ ^°^^ -"^h -aT. 
 
 er to his refuge, so as a last resoairce I 
 Uke over Naylor's spear and press with 
 all the speed I can command to over- 
 lap J f ''"^' ^^ ^^ *>^'t twenty 
 yards to go When I -am on him. He 
 flies along. „or deigns to turn. Ah 
 friend. I have thee now upon the hipl' 
 I close With him. and Jam the spear 
 down, fiercely, on his burly ,back; the 
 spearhead slips aside. Again I try. with 
 Ike result, and an instant later the 
 thorny bushes close behind him and 
 bar my farther way. 
 
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 THE !«POKT «r KAJAIIK 
 
 We quickly make our plans, and. 
 posting- ourselves en vedette on either 
 side of the cover in which he hides, we 
 watch against his least attempt at es- 
 cape. 
 
 Presently t)ie coolies join us, and 
 while one groes back to the camp for 
 a fresh spear for me, we get the blunt 
 one fined upon a local sharpening- 
 stone. A sraterul interval of refresh- 
 ment, and then, rearmed and rested, 
 we set the beaters on to drive hini 
 forth once more. But this is no easy 
 job. He cares not for their drums 
 and threats, but when they near him 
 charges and breaks through their 
 line, to nestle into some thick bush 
 behind them. They turn again and 
 treat him to an infernal serenade. 
 Suddenly their monotonous yelling 
 takes another tone; there is a con- 
 fused babble of talking, a hush, rnd 
 then a succession of somewhat more 
 coherent shouts, from which we can 
 gather that "Old Buldoo is killed by 
 the boar." The beating ceases, and 
 the coolies come huddling out of the 
 bushes carryinng one o ftheir number 
 between them. Of course he is not 
 killed, nor anything like it; but hi.g 
 friends hope that he is, seeing in his 
 decease a possible division among 
 them of eighty rupees consolation 
 money from us sahibs. Poor Buldoo 
 ^ias, however, a horrid circular gash 
 
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 THE xiPOItr OF KA.IAIIS 17 
 
 Inside the thigh, which has liriod a 
 flap of flesh from a suflicient dopth 
 to show the bone. Such a wound on 
 a white man would make a ghastly 
 show, but not so on the darker 
 Plindu skin, nor indeed is there 
 much flow of blood. Such as there 
 is we .soon stop, and, using- the 
 needles and silk, carbolic, and com- 
 press from the handy little St. John's 
 Ambulance wallet in our belt, we 
 soon have him well patched up and 
 homeward bound, comfortably in- 
 stalled upon a n.itive bedstead from 
 a neighbouring melon-gardener's hut. 
 Then for the first time my shikari 
 steps forward, grinning, and holding 
 in his hand the spear I had lost in 
 the pig. The boar, in charging 
 Buldoo, had brushed close past 
 himself, so that he was able to gnp 
 the spear with both hands and to 
 wrench it out. But the shaft was 
 split beyond repair. Once more the 
 coolies form to beat the cover, and. 
 whether it is some innate pluck or a 
 stoical ^uibmi.ssion to fate that guides 
 them, one cannot but admire the 
 way in which they proceed, unarmed 
 and on foot, to tackle a brute who 
 has ten to one the best of them in 
 the Jungle. Naylor. too. dismounts, 
 and is going in with them, spear in 
 hand, leaving mo to ride the boar 
 should he break; but at thi,s moment 
 
18 
 
 THE SPOKT OF n^.lAHO 
 
 excltM shouting from a shepherd n„ 
 a neighbouring knoll Inform? us ,ha^ 
 our w„y „uarnr has token- adv^n^e 
 
 arp nn *r , * ^^^ seconds we 
 
 friend oblf """' ^"' *^^"^° -« see our 
 
 ^^l, ; ^^"'ckshank used so expres- 
 slvely to describe it^ " ni,» «=^*Pres- 
 
 bag tumbling aloni'enf ^ "^"P^^" 
 TT/^^ „ a-iongr end over end " 
 
 bu L7rL"T "^ ""^^ " '^■°"™= 
 
 ""c an all too short bust in the onpn 
 and again Naylor forges well aher^f 
 
 tTglveTsT 'u ''' '' ^" - »^"-o- 
 
 are^overtakl^; IT= ?^" ^^ «"^^ -« 
 ^tr./i ^ ^*"^' *^^ stiffens his 
 
 ^trlde. and. dodging in his course foz a 
 moment or two. he suddenly tu ns 
 and comes at Navlor <■ m,^ .t 
 Of bricks " " wi*^ ^ thousand 
 
 But hlV ^ "'"''^-^ ^^ bis eye." 
 
 But he has not reckoned on the 
 
 for T^r '^^^' ^"^ ^ he bounds 
 for the horse with his head on one s"de 
 to deliver the ea^sh o* kj 
 
 tusk the spear-point catches him fair 
 n the Shoulder and rolls him over "n 
 
 mediately, and. furious with rage 
 turns and comes at once for me He 
 Is a grand specimen of sturdy savage 
 Pluck as he bristles up large towards 
 me, but he gives one little time for 
 a^lmiration as he plunges headlong at 
 the horse. A good point into his back 
 scarcely, stops the impetus of his rush 
 
THE KPOKT OF KA.IAII8 
 
 18 
 
 h 
 
 and a quick upward twist of his head, 
 as if merely to look at me, results in 
 an ugly slit in my horse's shoulder. 
 But the be r himself is now sorely 
 stricken. Close to him is one of those 
 curses of the Indian hunting countries, 
 a deep "nullah" or dry watercourse 
 some twenty feet wide and ten feet 
 deep, with steep sides. Into this he 
 rlunges, and when we reach the edge 
 we see him creeping into the cover of 
 a big thorn-bush in the bottom. We 
 note that immediately above the bush 
 the sides have toppled in and 
 have completely blocked the ra- 
 vine. So, moving a few yards down 
 the bank, we dismount, leave our 
 horses, and scramble down, spear in 
 hand. Into the bottom of the nullah. 
 Then we advance shoulder to shoulder 
 towards the bush, and from a distance 
 of ten yards or so, we hurl two or 
 three clods into it. Presently there 
 is a rustle, and our friend quietly 
 sneaks out on the far side, trotting 
 lamely up the nullah till he finds his 
 road barred by the fallen walls. Then 
 he turns and faces us, his little eyes 
 sparkling red with rage, blood well- 
 ing and glistening down his shoulder, 
 his broad nose dry and dusty, and 
 blood and slime dropping from his 
 panting jaws. His picture is photo- 
 graphed on my mind, but the photo- 
 graph is an instantaneous one; for in 
 
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 Tin: HP«KT OF Itt.lAII*^ 
 
 a m.-mcnt „,ore his ears are pricked. 
 
 his n ane ,s on oncl. and ho comes 
 
 touauls us at a shambling trot; at live 
 J aids distance he changes fo a gallon 
 and rushes blindly at us. Our spoaS 
 ^relow. there is a Shock, we are both 
 hurled back against the side or the 
 rav.ne. Then in the cloud of dust we 
 ^ee the boar on his knees at our feet 
 boh .pears planted in his che«t and 
 
 houlder. He essays to rise, but falls 
 tc'ck upon his Side, and one more 
 spear-thrust into his heant finishes off 
 .!s game a bear as ever ran 
 
 It IS somethmg that 1. very good. 
 
 In regimental orders one evening 
 theie appeared the notice that thp regi- 
 ment was to parade, mounted, next 
 mormng at daybreak, carrying fu, 
 
 Immu'n'r"^^ ^"' ^^" -unCs'o/biank 
 ammunition per man; rations to go out 
 I'y cart; and. last but not least. " offi- 
 cers and troop sergeant-majors may 
 cairy hog-spears in place of swords" 
 
 n>s"lted. """""'"' '"' '^'"^'"^ ""''^'-^^y 
 The jungle, a largo tract of heavy 
 8-ma« and jhow (tamarisk) bu..h. was 
 a facked with all military precaution 
 'ind completeness. 
 
 . '^^^ I'esriment proceeded through it 
 in line at half-open files; patrols of 
 four officers each were posted or moved 
 vvell ,n advance of the line, s,o that 
 
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 vhon a boar was .sear?d by tha noise of 
 the approaching line, then one of these 
 patrolH nearest to hlni wonlrl ride after 
 him and endeavour to bring him to 
 account. 
 
 So succesKful was the operation that 
 in a short time each of the parties 
 was away after its separate boar. Still 
 pigs vv-ere seen to be running away 
 ahead of the line with no one to hunt 
 them, till the colonel, who had hither- 
 to been directing the operations gen- 
 erally, gave the order for certain non- 
 commissioned ofllcers to take patrols of 
 men wtth them and see what they 
 could do with their swords against the 
 pigs. In a short time several of such 
 panties were to be seen scouring across 
 country in full pursuit of the common 
 foe. To say that they enjoyed it 
 would in no way express their excite- 
 ment and delight. 
 
 They galloped hero, thoy galloped there, 
 Thoy fought, they swore, they sweated. 
 
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 In a word, they had a glorious time, 
 albei't when the " Hally " sounded the 
 bag— bej-ond those killed by the spear 
 parties— was not a large one. Still, 
 when all was over, the horses groom- 
 ed and fed, and the men at their din- 
 ners and free to talk, the babel in the 
 bivouac was almos-t ludicrous, since 
 every man at once was keen to tell his 
 
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 tale of personal adven.ture with the In- 
 ^ an plgr. Here one was mating how 
 hla troopmare. •• C " 16, had turned her 
 tall upon the advancing foe. and w'th 
 her lron-«hod heels had sent his front 
 eeth rattling down hla throat. And 
 there another, a budding Munchausen 
 was relating how he .tood the at-' 
 ack of not only one. but four bloom- 
 ITH^' ^" "' ^ ^^•" ^"«i how all 
 them off. It was a day that was talk- 
 ed of for months afterwards In the 
 regimen..; and though this one expert- 
 ence can have done no more than give 
 tne men a momentary taste of the 
 ecstasy of a fighting gallop, pig.gtick- 
 Ing IS nevertheless par excellence a 
 
 sustains his beat service qualities, and 
 stands without rival as a traiiilng- 
 school for officers: nor Is it ever likely 
 to languish for want of votaries so 
 ^ong as boars and Britons continue to 
 
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