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Most Thrilling Of Sports.

Pig-sticking Not the Form of Amusement That Would Appeal to the Mollycoddle.

     One of the most thrilling of all sports is pig-sticking. Armed with a steel-pointed bamboo spear some seven or eight feet long, and mounted on a fast, well-trained horse, the pig-sticker waits outside a patch of covert until the beaters’ cries announce that a wild boar has gone away. He then gallops after the quarry, accompanied by several other riders all intent on winning the honor which goes to the “first spear.”

     The Indian boar is a large and powerful beast, standing some 40 inches in height, and armed with formidable tusks, which he uses to good purpose. He is the craftiest of animals and the finest of fighters.

     After him go the sportsmen. They have no chance of catching him for some time, for in his first burst the “Pig” will outdistance any horse. At last one rider, drawing away from the rest, gets within sticking distance. Quick as lighting the boar “jinks,” or jumps to one side.

     Next moment horse and rider are struggling on the ground, for piggy has charged hard and true, throwing them both. If help is not at hand he will wound or even kill his antagonist.

     His tusks, nine or ten inches in length, he uses as chisels, ripping and tearing with them in his fury. Luckily, the second man is close up, and after a fierce fight the pig is speared. Here is a form of sport that no one could accuse of lameness.

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