Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — A Pig-Sticking Adventure. [ARTICLE]

A Pig-Sticking Adventure.

A correspondent of the Calcutta Englishman, writing from Mozulferpur, Tirhut, gives a description of a day’s pig-sticking. The fourth boar proved a tough customer. This animal, says the writer, was a typical* wild hoar, sulky and savage to a degree, breaking backward and backward again whenever the elephants reached him, charging with real vicious Intent whenever anyone neared him, and, when forced out of cover, using his ;ace to get hack again. He totally refused to go away clear, so it was determined to kill him In the grass. Mr. J)—— promptly got a spear into him, which did not improve his vicious disposition, and he charged In savagely, only to be struck again. Upon this lie lay down and let himself lie prodded twice, making us believe that he was dead. But' suddenly, without warning, he charged out, and cut 11. C.’s horse in both hocks, and then with a spear still in him charged between two elephants. Then, as Rider Haggard would say, a strange thing happened; for one of the elephants, seeing the spear sticking In the pig,pulled It out with its trunk and threw It high over the mail out’s head. When the spear had thus been extracted, the pig evidently lost blood, for ho lay down and let himself be slain peacefully. After this surly fellow’s death, the elephants were taken to the smaller grass across the “bandh." Seven lighting boars, averaging collectively over thirty Inches each, and four horses cut, was good enough for one morning, and It was a hatch of satisfied sportsmen who sat down to Mrs. 11. 's ample lunch at tho Guprama bungalow.