"The Line of Beaters"

From: Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting, London, 1924

		B-P's Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting (1915/1924) is the classic work on this dangerous sport. He provides a shorter treatment of the subject in his autobiography Lessons from the Varsity of Life.  "The Boar," he writes, "who deserves a big B whenever he is mentioned, is the King of the Jungle. He is the one beast that no other, except possibly the blundering old rhino, will face. When he comes down to drink at the water-hole all other people, including tiger and buffalo and elephant (especially elephant), sneak away, and believe that after all they are not very thirsty or think they will try for a drink somewhere else."
		Paintings by Baden-Powell. B-P was an accomplished artist and most of his published works are illustrated with his own drawings and in some case, color plates from his paintings. His notebooks, diaries, journals and letters are reported to be filled with pen and ink drawings, and both pencil and water-color sketches. Here is a small collection of illustrations of his water-color paintings from illustrations in a variety of sources.

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