THE WOLF. igi 



placed. A horse was killed, and the fore-quarters- 

 were trailed through the paths and ways in the 

 wood during the previous day, and back to where the 

 carcase lay, and there they were left. When night 

 approached, out came the Wolves, and having struck 

 the scent, they followed it until they found the dead 

 horse, when of course they began to feed on the 

 flesh, and early in the morning, just before daybreak, 

 the hunters placed their dogs so as to prevent the 

 Wolves from returning to cover. When a Wolf 

 came to the spot, the men in charge of the Wolf- 

 hounds suffered him to pass by the first, but the 

 last were let slip full in his face, and at the same 

 instant the others were let slip also, so that, the 

 first staying him ever so little, he was sure to be 

 attacked on all sides at once, and therefore, the 

 more easily taken.* 



In Robert Legge's " Book of Information/' com- 

 piled in 1 5 84 by order of Sir John Perrott, the above- 

 named Lord-Deputy of Ireland, " for the information 

 of the civil government of that realm," it is recom- 

 mended, inter alia, that for the " destruction of raven- 

 ing and devouring Wolves, some order might be had, as 

 when any lease is granted, to put in some clause that 

 the tenant endeavour himself to spoil and kill Wolves 

 with traps, snares, or such devices as he may devise, "t 



* The most complete account which we have met with of Wolf- 

 hunting in modern times is that given by Col. Thornton in his 

 "Sporting Tour through various parts of France in 1802," vol. i. 

 pp. xxi-xxxix. A more recent treatise, however, has been published 

 under the title of " Wolf-hunting in Brittany." 



f Carew MSS., vol. dcvii. p. 115. Brewer and Bullen, Calendar of 

 Carew MSS., Eliz., p. 401. 



