130 WOLF-HUNTING. 



the Baron de Keryfan, having introduced me to M, de St. Prix, 

 the Louvetier had kindly invited me to join his party on the 

 present occasion. 



" The man and place of all others for the sport," he observed ; 

 " but, happily, 



' Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum :' 



and this little town, the centre of the best wolf and boar-hunting, 

 and, I may add, cock-shooting, in all Brittany, is, and I hope 

 will long continue to be, a terra incognita to tourists in general, 

 and gunners in particular. These latter, especially from the 

 Channel Islands, have so overrun the covers and country 

 bordering on the sea-coast, that henceforth it is proposed a 

 permis-de-chasse should be granted to no foreigner who has not 

 resided at least six months in the country. It is no mere figure 

 of speech to say that these men have sent cart-loads of game 

 to the Paris and English markets from this country ; and hence 

 the need of a more stringent law for the protection of the game, 

 and the native chasseur." 



The very fact that I was a friend of Keryfan's, and in St. 

 Prix's company, was a sufficient guarantee to him that my sole 

 object was wild sport; and feeling this, he not only did all 

 in his power to promote that object, but bid me frequently to 

 his " Hermitage," and showed me the most cordial hospitality 

 during my two seasons' residence in Brittany. Of Shafto and 

 that Hermitage I could fill a volume. However, I will only give 

 a brief description of each for the present. The dwelling, so 

 called, consisted simply of four square ground-floor rooms, such 

 as might be constructed from a parish pin-fold, if roofed over and 

 divided into compartments. It stood in the centre of a large 

 yard, surrounded by a high, strong, stone wall, the entrance to 

 to which was by a porte-cochere, massive as the gates of a Norman 

 castle. Situated in a wild, solitary ravine of the Black Mountains, 



