I have shot pigin heavy jungle where spearing was impracticableover thirty-six inches high, but the biggest pig I ever stuck to my own spear was only twenty-eight inches, and I do not think any pig has been killed in Chumparun, within the last ten or a dozen years at any rate, over thirty-eight inches.

He also showed him their method of spearing fish, and taught him many other savage accomplishments.

After wilting a little on the ground, it is dried on sticks, by one of the three processes called "pegging, spearing, and splitting."

Shall I not tell you he brings me a little bunch of eels of his own spearing?

Soon after this they were again perceived paddling along the edge of the mangroves, apparently engaged in spearing fish with a fiz-gig; which the striker used in a similar way to that of the natives of Port Jackson; but from the leisurely manner in which they proceeded it was evidently their intention to approach us under pretence of fishing.

The reader will here recognize, in this instrument, a striking resemblance to the oonak and katteelik, the weapons which Captain Parry describes the Esquimaux to use in spearing the seal and whale.

Their object was to surprise the fish-poachers at the illegal, but very exciting and picturesque, sport of spearing by torchlight.

When well advanced in the latter, they are taught spearing rings or stuffed heads at the gallop, and the same with the sword.

In the summer months they frequent the sea-coast, where their skill in spearing fish is described as quite wonderful.

I remember a very old man, who was thus affected, being tried and hung, for spearing one of Mr. Hart's men; the culprit was so ill and infirm as to be obliged to be carried to the place of execution.

"If you see a big gray man on horseback, with a long lance, spearing children," said Van Hee, "why, that's an Uhlan.

Not that I doubt the world is growing still, As once it grew from chaos and from night; Or have a soul too shrunken for the hope Which dawned in human breasts, a double morn, With earliest watchings of the rising light Chasing the darkness; and through many an age Has raised the vision of a future time That stands an angel, with a face all mild, Spearing the demon.

"He do dat ar'?" said Candace, dropping the fork wherewith she was spearing doughnuts.

On the river there were several canoes, with fishermen spearing by torch-light; while on the banks the boatmen and boys, Mulattos and whites, were occupied in gambling.

MCCANN, HERBERT L. Expert driving, by H, L. McCann and James O. Spearing.

The spearing by his soldiery of infants which had hardly left the breast he himself openly avowed, and excused upon the plea that if allowed to survive they would grow up to be men and women, and that his object was to extirpate the entire brood.

Though unarmed, he makes various gestures as if spearing or clubbing an enemy, for which the girls cheer him.

an injury and indignity which, when safe on board, he resented by repeated threats, uttered in a sort of wild chant, of spearing their thighs, backs, loins, and, indeed, each individual portion of the frame.

The agility this native exhibited in spearing fish was astonishing.

In shallow water he would actually course the fish till he got them within spearing depth, when, although his prey darted past, he struck it with the most surprising precision.

They were poling their craft around in all directions spearing fish.

" For a few moments he handled the polished, slender-tined, long-handled spear with great dexterity and success, and told the story of old Leather Stocking spearing bass from the Pioneers.

"S[ALLY] FAIRFAX, "ANN SPEARING.

The infinite patience and delicacy requisite in their bird-snaring and spearing are almost beyond the conception of the civilized townsmen untrained in wood-craft.

Both these murders were committed under circumstances of the utmost atrocity, the victims being surprised asleep unconscious of danger and perfectly defenceless, then aroused to find themselves treacherously attacked by numbers, who, after spearing them in many places, fearfully mangled the bodies with clubs.