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spots in that neighbourhood. The little hamlet, however, boasts 

 but of one mill and a couple of poor cottages ; so that accom- 

 modation there was none, much less "good entertainment for 

 man and horse," in any of those buildings. It was found 

 necessary, therefore, to send on the team and coach to Callac, 

 a small town near the Forest of Dualt, about two leagues 

 beyond Locrist, and on the eastern road between that place 

 and Guingamp. 



Our arrangements for the beat were soon made : St. Prix 

 and Kergoorlas, who were bent on having their revenge, taking 

 the hill on the right bank of the brook ; while Keryfan and I 

 worked the rough ground on the opposite side of the valley. By 

 this plan we mutually derived immense advantage, as we were 

 able not only to mark for each other, but to save our legs from 

 the labour of following the coveys that continually, in their first 

 flight, crossed and recrossed the deep ravine that lay between us. 

 The red-legged birds were especially addicted to this manoeuvre. 

 When sprung on one side, they almost invariably crossed to the 

 other; and then, taking advantage of some intervening knoll 

 just as a fox would place a line of hillocks or the screen of some 

 undulating ground between him and the eyes that would tally him 

 they recrossed the valley, and perhaps dropped into a strong 

 piece of gorse within a field or two of the spot on which they 

 were just found. But, by drawing both sides of the valley 

 simultaneously, we completely out-manoeuvred their tactics ; and 

 this, too, without shouting or disturbing the ground otherwise 

 than by the report of our guns and the legitimate work of our 

 dogs. When birds were marked down, a hat waved in the 

 direction served as the simple but effective semaphore to indicate 

 their exact whereabouts. Then, not a word passed between us, 

 so that the running propensity of the red-leg received no stimulus 

 from our babbling tongues. 



No country in the world can surpass this rough ground of 



