264 WOLF-HUNTING. 



with a moderate share of field and sylvan amusements, the forests- 

 of the immediate neighbourhood would afford a varied diurnal 

 feast throughout the season : at least, this was the case at the 

 period to which these papers refer. The chasse of the townsfolk, 

 then, whatever that meant or might be supposed to include, was 

 an outing we all accepted with pleasure, and, with the exception, 

 of St. Prix, we shouldered our guns and sallied forth, with the 

 prospect at least of getting a good walk, if not of enjoying the 

 day's sport. The only weapon carried by the Louvetier on the 

 occasion was a club-stick, which, by the way, he handled in 

 Breton fashion, grasping it by the small end, and making the 

 knob do duty on the ground. 



" No eye hath seen such scarecrows," exclaimed the immortal 

 Jack Falstaff, when he flatly refused to march into Coventry 

 before the ragged lot he was then leading ; but Jack's experience 

 would have been enlarged had he seen the strange medley of 

 men and dogs that marched upon Kergloff that morn, for certainly 

 in no quarter of the civilised globe could a wilder-looking set of 

 bipeds be found than those of Cornouaille proceeding with their 

 scratch-pack to the chasse in hunting costume. The latter, about 

 twenty in number, with the exception of five harriers, were chiefly 

 mongrels of the lowest type, from the form and features of which 

 it would have puzzled the craftiest cynologist to discover to what 

 class of dog they were most nearly allied, or what mongrel blood 

 most predominated in their veins. In some, united under one 

 skin, were the distinct characteristics of poodle, pointer, and 

 butcher's dog, while others displayed a dash of hound's blood, 

 grossly adulterated with that of the cur, the Italian greyhound, 

 and the curly-coated poodle, the last of which appeared to be 

 commingled with every description of dog that traversed, owned 

 or ownerless, the streets of Carhaix. Then there was one grandee 

 among the lot, a double-nosed Spanish pointer, with a skin fine 

 as satin, a stump tail, and a magnificent head : he looked like 



