WOLF-HUNTING, 



AND 



WILD SPORT IN BRITTANY. 



CHAPTER I. 



Vive la chasse ! 



Elle surpasse 



Tous les plaisirs 



Qui charment nos loisirs." 



TELLIER'S Chansonnier du Chasseur. 



THE hunting record of two winters one of unusual severity 

 passed in the Black Mountains of Brittany, among the wolves, 

 boars, and foxes of that forest land, may haply be interesting to 

 many who love wild sport, but scarcely know to what extent it 

 may be enjoyed in a country within so short a distance of our 

 own metropolis, and not even a twenty hours' journey from the 

 Hampshire coast. The rivers of Norway, once teeming with 

 salmon, have been fished bare by Anglo-Saxon rods ; while the 

 prairies of the Far West and the ravines of the Rocky Mountains 

 have been ransacked by hunters armed with Lancaster guns and 

 Eley's ammunition but, if wild sport was the object, a fair share 



