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Updated: June 24, 2025
Pig-sticking couldn't be called a quest, yet there are "cracks" at the game, quite the same as at polo or billiards. Horse and man carry their lives on the outside, so to speak. The trick of it all is that a man never knows what the tusker will do. You can't even count on him doing the opposite. And he does it quick. Often he sniffs first, but you don't hear that until after it is done.
As for these Schläger contests, they seem to me no more brutal than our own foot-ball, which is only brutal to the shivering crowd of the too tender who have never played it, and not so dangerous as polo or pig-sticking, and a thousand times better than no contest at all. I am not of those who believe that the human body and that human life are the most precious and valuable things in the world.
Then the reunion round the festive board at night, when every one again lives through all the excitement of the day. Talk of fox-hunting after pig-sticking, it is like comparing a penny candle to a lighthouse, or a donkey race to the 'Grand National'!
The sport par excellence of India is pig-sticking. Call it hog-hunting if you will, I prefer the honest old-fashioned name. With a good horse under one, a fair country, with not too many pitfalls, and 'lots of pig, this sport becomes the most exciting that can be practised.
"Early rising and late going to bed are bad for the complexion," he declared, solemnly. "I often wonder how army officers manage to exist," she said. "They never seem to get enough sleep, in the East, at any rate. I have seen them dancing for hours after midnight, and heard of them pig-sticking or schooling hunters at five o'clock next morning." "So you assume I have been in the army?"
When once you turn him out from his lair, there is grand hunting room before he can reach the distant patch of jungle to which he directs his flight. Kuderent jungle. Charged by a pig. The biter bit. 'Mac' after the big boar. The horse for pig-sticking. The line of beaters. The boar breaks. 'Away! Away! First spear. Pig-sticking at Peeprah. The old 'lungra' or cripple. A boar at bay.
The Crown Prince naturally devoted a goodly share of his time to the delights of sport, including tiger-shooting and pig-sticking, but he must also have learned much of England's fine imperial spirit from his intercourse with an official hierarchy as honest and conscientious as that of his own country.
"Oh, I won't tell a soul," Violet promised. "How exciting if you go, Allegro! I wonder if you will get married." Olga laughed light-heartedly. "As if I should waste my precious time like that! No, no! If I go, I shall fill up every minute of the time with adventures. I shall go tiger-hunting with Nick, and pig-sticking, and riding, and oh, scores of things.
I know I had no thought of it myself, that day I rode across and joined the Princess at Mana. Never was there such festal time. You know the grand way the old Parkers had of entertaining. The pig-sticking and wild-cattle-shooting, the horse-breaking and the branding. The servants' quarters overflowing. Parker cowboys in from everywhere.
When it was over, he went on, with a few more lines in his face, a few more wrinkles in his heart, soldiering, shooting tigers, pig-sticking, playing polo, riding to hounds harder than ever; giving nothing away to the world; winning steadily the curious, uneasy admiration that men feel for those who combine reckless daring with an ice-cool manner.
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