46 TRAGICAL EVENT. 



man, told me that, when in Norway some years ago, 

 lie and a friend thus bagged in a few days nineteen 

 and a half brace of those birds. 



When shooting Capercali, or, indeed, any other kind 

 of game in cover, with a pointer, it was my custom to 

 hunt him with a bell about his neck, which I found an 

 immense advantage ; for if the bell suddenly ceased 

 ringing, I was pretty sure, on proceeding to the spot, to 

 find the dog at a jjoint. It might be sujiposed the bell 

 would alarm the birds, but this did not appear to be 

 the case, probably because they were accustomed to the 

 sound of it, as one or more of a herd of cattle pasturing 

 in the northern forests is almost always provided with 

 tliat appendage. 



As regards the counti'y about Ronnum — the place of 

 my late residence — the best Capercali shooting was on the 

 hills of Hunneberg* and Halleberg. But these being 

 lloyal domains and strictly preserved, it was only once 

 in a time, by the courtesy of M. Sandelhjelm, the late 

 Governor of the province of Wenersborg, that I obtained 

 acce^g to them. On these occasions I was always accom- 

 panied, agreeably to rule, by a keeper, and more than 

 once by an individual named Mork, Avho some years 

 subsequently met with a very sad fate. 



He had been missing from home for some time, and 

 after several days' search by a large body of men, called 

 out by the authorities for the purpose, his mangled 

 remains were at length found under a heap of brushwood, 

 evidently cast over them by his murderer. A peasant 



* Oi' iiiimntain of the Huns. It may be deserviug of notice, that 

 the reineniliraiice of the Gotlis is preserved in the Swedish names of Osier- 

 Gothland, Wester-Gothlarul, GotJddnd, Goiha river, etc. ; and I tliink Sweden 

 is the only country in Europe that can sliow hiealities named after that 

 once so powerful nation. The Swedisli nmnarcli, it may be added, still 

 bears tlie title of the " Kinn of the Goths," 



