He is good, very good, at all sports, but it is as a pig-sticker that he excels, and stands out clear-cut from the rest.

And pig-sticking is the sport of all sports which entail the killing of animals in which we could wish him to excel.

Hear Major Moray Brown on the subject of fox _versus_ pig: "You cannot compare the two sports together.

To begin with, in fox-hunting you are dependent on 'scent.' Granted the excitement of a fast burst over a grass country, and that you are well carried by your horse, the end--what is it?
A poor little fox worried by at least forty times its number of hounds.

Has he a chance, bar his cunning, of baffling his pursuers?
No.