a part of the plain which was intersected by several nullahs. She, too,
had been wounded, but one of the nullahs had thrown out several of her
pursuers: one rider had been sent over his horse's head and stunned; and
the sow, turning sharp down a deep and precipitous gully, had made her
escape. Three of the squeakers fell to the spears of the Griffs--young
hands--and the rest had escaped. The boar had been killed only a short
distance from the rise upon which the spectators from Sandynugghur were
assembled, and the beaters soon tied its four legs together, and, putting
a pole through them, six of them carried the beast up to the colonel's
wife for inspection.

"What a savage-looking brute it is!" said Kate; "not a bit like a pig,
with all those long bristles, and that sharp high back, and those
tremendous tusks."

"Will you accept the skin, Miss Warrener?" Captain Dunlop said to her
afterward; "I have arranged with the doctor. He is to have the hams, and I
am to have the hide. If you will, I will have it dressed and mounted."

"Thank you, Captain Dunlop, I should like it very much;" but, as it turned
out, Kate Warrener never got the skin.

The boar killed, the doctor's first care was to attend to the wounded, and
Skinner's arm was soon bound up, and he was sent home in a buggy; the man
who was stunned came to in a short time. The unsuccessful ones were much
laughed at by the colonel and major, for allowing half the game started to
get away.

"You ought not to grumble, colonel," Captain Manners said. "If we had
killed them all, we might not have had another run for months; as it is,