The sportsman's book for India . ere those who were injudiciously treated withtheir first two or three pigs, or were of onepeculiar character. This character requires studying and almostalways goes with a small eye, the odd thingbeing that the eye may not be small naturally,but becomes so if the horse gets spoilt in train-ing. The disposition I allude to is the onewhich induces a horse to have ideas : the sortof horse to avoid is the one who wants to go oneway when you want to go another, who goeshome nicely enough, but is always stopping andsemi-rearing when going away from home orfrom other
The sportsman's book for India . ere those who were injudiciously treated withtheir first two or three pigs, or were of onepeculiar character. This character requires studying and almostalways goes with a small eye, the odd thingbeing that the eye may not be small naturally,but becomes so if the horse gets spoilt in train-ing. The disposition I allude to is the onewhich induces a horse to have ideas : the sortof horse to avoid is the one who wants to go oneway when you want to go another, who goeshome nicely enough, but is always stopping andsemi-rearing when going away from home orfrom other horses. The buck-jumping horseprobably is staunch enough, as is he with almostany kind of temper; but the small-mindednuisance, who probably has no other form ofvice but the sort just described, is mean and isthe one who is most likely to go up well whenthe pig is running in the open, but will not do soin cover, or when he is charging. The Arab, when bought, is almost invariably astallion, and, being a quiet, gentlemanly fellow,. X I < ;^ < 2 PIG-STICKING 345 is generally left so. As far as staunchnessgoes, he is invariably staunch at first, but gets** cunning as he goes on, and generally ends bybeing so clever that a pig can hardly be killedoff him. This is due not to his being in any wayfrightened, but to his having ideas of his ownand not trusting implicitly to his rider. At firsthe does not understand what the object is, anddoes not know how formidable an enemy is thepig. After a little he learns this ; and the fight-ing instinct of the stallion being roused, he hashis own opinion when to close and when not to,and even when he does close with the foe, hedoes so with the view of attacking him himself,and not so as to enable the rider to get a goodspear. In thick cover, or when he does not seethe pig himself, but knows he is close, he Disadvan-probably will not advance at all, generally with result that while the horse and rider aresettling their difference
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