File:The encyclopaedia of sport (1897) (14783688202).jpg

Identifier: encyclopaediaofs02suff (find matches)
Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
brute, he stands from30 to 38 inches at the withers, and is generally amass of thew and sinew. In spite of his weightybuild, he is very quick and active in his moves,and very fast upon his legs. For three-quartersof a mile a horse can scarcely live with himacross the roughish ground where he is metwith. His weight carries him through bushand jungle, and his activity affords him power the fight begins, for now he stops to contest hisway to some patch of cover, where he cancome to bay and display a pluck and toughnesssuch as no other animal can boast of. He neverloses head nor heart, and so long as life remainsin him he will force himself on to the huntersspears in a mad longing to get at them. There are several local varieties of pig inIndia (Sirs ///dints), severally known as :— I. Tatainya, Tatira, or Mooghun—well-bred,fierce, fast, and active. II. Meilier, Miickna, or Gagas,—large,coarse-bred, and slow. III. Kookhioniee, or Tdana,—smallish andlight-coloured, and very fierce.
Text Appearing After Image:
FlKST SrKAR. to jump anything that a horse can take andsometimes more. He has a wondrous knack ofjumping sideways over walls of lanes where thehorse can get no run to follow him. He always has his wits about him. Whilerunning before his pursuers he will take advan-tage of every form of cover or obstacle and putit between himself and them, and will endeavourby dodging to evade them, ^^ater has noterrors for him, and the most break neck placesare favoured by him in his flight. Then he is further possessed of the nastiesttemper of any living animal, and has a veryuseful instrument wherewith to vent his rage, inhis sharp and curving tusks. These he useswith unerring aim and quickness, and often withdeadly effect. Thus, when the boar has been overtaken andthe excitement of the race is over, the fun of YV. Sooair, a compact shape, also lightish incolour and very fierce. A boar is full grown at five years, but fills outin muscle up to eight. After nine his powersbegin to wane with age, and h

Note About Images