The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-29

SeIL I0OtsOre, and this bfllllanp DurSt ended in her losing puss.'
 For pig sticking, where the sportsman rides with his eye on the pig, and not on the ground traversed, the Arab is recommended as probably the best mount, partly from his natural hard- iiness, but also because he is exception- ally keen on the sport, picks his own way better than most other horses, and is particularly plucky when his rider has come to close quarters with the boar. The horses which take the most active part in hunting big game, and in actual chase, at the utmost speed, are lthose used by the sword hunting Arabs fof the Nile tributaries. These are ha- bitually ridden in pursuit of the giraffe, elephant, rhinoceros, the hunter riding right up to the heels of the quarry, and l then leaping off and ham stringing it with the broad two-handed sword. A pony called "Bashom,' was ridden at igiraffe after the fall of Khartoum. One I day he managed to get loose when he
 was not taken out, and poined the
 hunting party of his own account. This pony is a pure bred Arab, originally jpurchased at Damascus.
 Occasionally a vicious horse will hunt a human being or some other animal
 most persistently with view to injur- ling it. A case lately heard before the 1 courts illustrates this. The defendant
 was sued for injuring horse by hitting its leg with stone There seemed nc I doubt that he had done this. But the defense was that it was very vicious ihorse which had killed man. When seen by the defendant it was chasing 9 boy, who cried out for help. The de fendant, knowing the horses history came to the rescue, and threw a large I stone, which stopped it, and caused il Injury. A donkey which was known tc have a dislike for dogs was seen to lcourse a setter puppy in the most re llentless manner, until it drove it into 9 stream, where the pursuer endeavored 1 to kill it with it's fore feet. On the oth. Ter hand, the true sporting instinct sometimes exists without any desire t
 kill at all A beagle puppy has more l than once been known to run alongside Iof a hare which it had been hunting by lscent with the rest of the pack for son l time, and with the utmost keenness
 without attempting to bite 1t. In the
 same way, no dog can resist joining 1T
 a kind of mimic chase when a herd oi pigs stampedes on a bean stubble, ol Iany open ground where they are turned Tout in the autumn in a more or less
 wild state. Y I An old hunter seldom loses its taste for what was once the main occupation | and excitement of it's life. It is inpos' sible to know what may have been tht lpast of a horse, as the handy -to-ride Ior-drivea animals are very numerous
 and the riding part of their services lcloses first. Consequently when hound.
 are running near a road the most unex ipected things happen to those drivint
 dogearts, bakers carts, or even trades mems vans, from the uncontrollabl, I desire of the veteran animal they ar,
 driving to join in the chase. We re
 member on one occasion to have seer
 the road strewn for more than a hun Idred yards with newly baked loaves tscattered from bakers cart, in Whicl
 they had been piled up for a Saturday,
 delivery. The hounds were running
 parallel with the highway, and tn 2 HCdNy y#4 uiNlSluli Sdyly gE0ulluiI5 8etl0lil $ Ithe road at best pace, were at ono joined by. the bakers horse, which, af ter pumping the driver over a ston . heap, and upsettihg him over the oi . wheel on to the green edging, was 500 < we'll with the first flight until whee came off in collision with farm carl z Most animals have kind of instinc ] for joining in hue and cry, of an ] king. Thus on Exmoor the half-wil
 cattle and ponies will gallop with tn
 hunters, keeping as much as possible i line with them.-Lnndon Spectator.