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placed. A horse was killed, and the fore-quarters 
were trailed through the paths and ways in the 
wood during the previous day, and back to where the 
carcase lay, and there they were left. When night 
approached, out came the Wolves, and having struck 
the scent, they followed it until they found the dead 
horse, when of course they began to feed on the 
flesh, and early in the morning, just before daybreak, 
the hunters placed their dogs so as to prevent the 
Wolves from returning to cover. When a Wolf 
came to the spot, the men in charge of the Wolf- 
hounds suffered him to pass by the first, but the 
last were let slip full in his face, and at the same 
instant the others were let slip also, so that, the 
first staying him ever so little, he was sure to be 
attacked on all sides at once, and therefore, the 
more easily taken.* 
In Robert Legge’s ‘“ Book of Information,” com- 
piled in 1584 by order of Sir John Perrott, the above- 
named Lord-Deputy of Ireland, “for the information 
of the civil government of that realm,” it is recom- 
mended, inter alia, that for the ‘‘ destruction of raven- 
ing and devouring Wolves, some order might be had,as 
when any lease is granted, to put in some clause that 
the tenant endeavour himself to spoil and kill Wolves 
with traps, snares, or such devices as he may devise. ”t 
* The most complete account which we have met with of Wolf- 
hunting in modern times is that given by Col. Thornton in his 
“Sporting Tour through various parts of France in 1802,” vol. i. 
pp. xxi-xxxix. A more recent treatise, however, has been published 
under the title of ‘‘ Wolf-hunting in Brittany.” 
+ Carew MSS., vol. devil. p. 115. Brewer and Bullen, Calendar of 
Carew MSS., Eliz., p. 4or. 
