Letters of Marque by Rudyard Kipling — Read

_Of the Pig-drive which was a Panther-killing, and of the Departure / to Chitor._

Above the Durbar Gardens lie low hills, in which the Maharana keeps, very strictly guarded, his pig and his deer, and anything else that may find shelter in the low scrub or under the scattered boulders. These preserves are scientifically parcelled out with high red-stone walls; and, here and there, are dotted tiny shooting-boxes, in the first sense of the term -- masonry sentry-boxes, in which five or six men may sit at ease and shoot. It had been arranged -- to entertain the Englishmen who were gathered at the Residency to witness the investiture of the King with the G. C. S. I. -- that there should be a little pig-drive in front of the Kala Odey or black shooting-box. The Rajput is a man and a brother, in respect that he will ride, shoot, eat pig and drink strong waters like an Englishman. Of the pig-hunting he makes almost a religious duty, and of the wine-drinking no less. Read how desperately they used to ride in Udaipur at the beginning of the century when Tod, always in his cocked hat be sure, counted up the tale of accidents at the end of the day's sport.