306 DRUID AND THE WOLF. 



Bayard having started to rido the distance over the 

 solitary plains at 2 a.m., at daybreak we struck camp 

 and followed in the same direction, when in the 

 course of the day the following amusing incident oc 

 curred. Not apprehending the presence of any game, 

 old Druid was at liberty, and as usual in his favourite 

 place, trotting a long way ahead of the ambulance in 

 which I was ; suddenly out of the grass, but on the 

 wrong side for him to catch the wind, a very large wolf 

 arose and stared at the hound. I soon possessed myself 

 of my Manton and heavy deer cartridge, but ere my 

 ambulance arrived within shot, while Druid passed 

 without noticing the wolf, the latter cantered off and 

 was lost among the undulations of the plains. Druid 

 continued to trot on ahead, when, alas ! too far off to 

 be in reach of the cartridge, on the road and coming to 

 meet him I saw another large wolf, when as Druid 

 reached the summit of a little rise in the track, the wolf 

 came up on the other side, and they met face to face. 

 Bang at the wolf went the old hound, and off the wolf 

 set with Druid racing after him over the plains, and be 

 fore my mare could be brought up the Boh-hoy who 

 had her in charge having listlessly loitered in the rear 

 the wolf had shut out the hound from view, precisely 

 as a fox would have done, by availing himself of hollows, 

 and inequalities in the plains, and old Druid was fling 

 ing away vigorously on his scent, but, to my astonish 

 ment, in perfect silence. I arn certain that the hound 

 was not sure whether it was a dog, or what it was that 

 he was on, or if he was right in chasing, never having 

 felt such a scent before, and always having been steady 

 to deer. I have often, when he was short of work, seen 

 him run and open on a fox, but on the wolf he was 



