Hunting in Many Lands 



the owner as well as of the hunter, who always 

 preserves a warm remembrance of it. 



The wolves were located in a large marshy 

 wood and, from information of the scouts based 

 on the midnight and dawn choruses, they were 

 reported "at home." Accordingly we prepared 

 for our visit with the greatest precautions. 

 When within a verst of the proposed curved 

 line upon which we were to take our stands 

 with barzois, all dismounted and proceeded 

 through the marsh on foot, making as little 

 noise as possible. The silence was occasion- 

 ally broken by the efforts of the barzois to 

 slip themselves after a cur belonging to one of 

 the peasant beaters, that insisted upon seeing 

 the sport at the most aggravating distance for 

 a sight hound. It was finally decided to slip 

 one good barzoi that, it was supposed, could 

 send the vexatious animal to another hunting 

 ground ; but the cur, fortunately for himself, 

 suddenly disappeared and did not show him- 

 self again. 



After wading a mile in the marshy bog, we 

 were at the beginning of the line of combat — 

 if there was to be any. The posts along this 

 line had been indicated by the chief huntsman 

 by blazing the small pine trees or by hanging 



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