The morning call., 1893-05-31
BoAR-HUNTING IN INDIA.
Sir Edwin Arnold'S Unexpected En-
counter While Out Shooting Quail.

Ii was amid the pretty broken country
round Poorundbur, not far from Pouna. in
the Bombay presidency-a country of trap
hills, and vast plains of black soil, which
splits open in summertime with innumer-
able wide assures, into which the lizards
and field rats take headers as You walk,
and the snakes glide back and forth. writes
Sir Edwin Arnold in the London Tele-
graph. l had been shooting quail, with
none but native attendants, and as the
sun touched the western horizon we came
to the edge of deep glen wooded with
rounded clustered bushes. between which
showed patches Of yellow grass.
down in that nullah, Gharib-parwar-
(protector of the poor)-there are plenty OF
deer and hares; and. perhaps, leopard"
remarked my Mahratta shikari.
''Get fifty Of the ne0ple OF the village"
| answered, Tomorrow morning early and
let us beat the nullah from top to bottom.
We can do il if"
"Dekhol Dekhow interrupted Raglan;
ed | saw something in the upper part Of
he valley moving downward, which might
be any thing.
Obeying a not very wise Instruction
the light was ranidly failing-I snatchod
my rife from Raghar's hand aud ran down
tue SUPP, I6 lOllONIOR. w nat u lovely
and lonely hollow 1t was in that silent
Indi n waste. with its smooth tables of
sand and grass, its green busby sides and
cascades of wild parastical flowers grow
Ing on the tree stems, while the tiny gray
rjngtoyeS fitted cooling from bush to bush,
and from the thin stream of water at the
bottom the Deccan pee-wlt, who cries,
did you do it? Did you DO it ?" rose,
aware of our presence.
Soon a bntton quail hustled out of cane
thcket higher up. and settled almost at
our feet-sure sign that something was
Gaming. And something did indeed come.
We were standing on level patch of clear
ground, with dense clover above and be.
low, and the twilight, which lasts so briefly
in India. was already growing dim, when
out blundered big jungle sow, followed
| by pack of piglets. bent. no doubt. on
drink OF water in the bottom, afterward
the nightly forage. Motionless though we
| stood, she saw us from her little eyes and
Krunted something perfectly INTEL gible,
beyond doubt, to her little ones. for they
ali INN ediatey scurricd hard across tina
open. hHstling their numbering mother.
IL was Ineligible, moreover to another
pair of brlstly ears, for again the bushes
opened, and forth into the patch of clear
ground thrust a grand old gray boar-to
whom. | firmly believe. his porcIne consort
had hastily remarked, My dear! there
are hateful men here. Rip them up-if
you can AT all events he did not seem
surprised to see US, but champed his lips,
granted in quick, angry way, and came
straight for where we stood.
Marc! marc" cried Raghar-"shoot,
shoot'-and, truly. it was no time to have
IN mind the regulations of the Poona Hunt
Club. could just catch the sight of the
rife IN the dim evening, as l sunk on nv
knee, and fired quick, to gel both bullets in.
The first caught him on the right-ha and
tusk and Sent It spinning, but glanced of.
However, the boar turned his head aside
little at the shock, and just sIackened a
bit in manner to show his broad neck fair
and square. not twelve yards off, so that
| my secUnd bullet went clean through the
cervical vertebr8. At the cost of venati-
cal improperly Raaar and were saved.