nd Jack Penny,
whose long legs kept dropping down, and then being spasmodically
snatched up.

I burst into a roar of laughter, and Jimmy, who was standing, spear in
hand, upon a branch, holding on by another, danced with excitement and
delight.

"Pull yourself right up, Jack," I shouted, and I had hard work to make
my voice heard above the grunting and squealing.

"I can't," he yelled back.

"Then kick out at the little brutes," I shouted; and just then he
lowered himself to the full length of his arms, swung to and fro, and
half-a-dozen pigs rushed at him, but he had gained impetus, and just as
they made a dash at him he swung his legs up, and clung with them to a
branch.

"Hurrah!" I shouted; and then a sharp squeal uttered by one unfortunate
pig as Jimmy drove his spear through it as it passed beneath his feet,
and the sharp report of the doctor's piece, brought me to my senses.

The scene had been so comical, especially as regarded Jack Penny, that I
had forgotten that I was letting several good dinners slip away, and I
had just time to get a quick shot at one of the pigs which was stamping
his hoof and grunting defiantly at Jack Penny, before the whole drove,
including one that had received an arrow from Ti-hi's bow, swept by us
as hurriedly as they came, and were gone.

"Not hurt, are you, Jack?" I said, preparing to jump.

"Keep your place," cried the doctor; "they may come back."

"Well, I shall have a better shot at them," I said.

"You foolish boy!" cried the doctor. "Why, the boars would rip you to
pieces."

I returned to my place at this, and it was fortunate that I did so, for
directly after, as if in the wildest of haste, the pig drove came
dashing back, to stop as hastily as they came up, and stand snapping,
tossing their heads, grunting, squealing, and at times literally barking
at us.

A couple of shots which laid low one of their party seemed, however, to
scare them, and they dashed on once more, and hardly had they gone
twenty yards before there was a loud thud and Jack Penny fell from the
branch, where he had been clinging, flat upon his back.

"Oh my!" he cried, as he sat up and looked about. "I couldn't hold on
any longer. It's lucky they are gone."

"Look out!" I cried, swinging myself down, dropping my gun, and pulling
my hatchet from my belt; but Jack would have fared badly if he had
depended on me.

For the little boar that had been wounded by an arrow, had dropped,
a