256 FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE. 



■whom fell the liver, in Scotland held to be the titbit of a roe. 

 The rest of the animal by no means becomes the property of 

 the shooter. His only perquisites are the horns and an inch or 

 ttwo of skull as trophy. He has the proud privilege of buying 

 his game, if he choose : if he does not, it is sold piecemeal for 

 the benefit of the poor. 



Now for the hotel-hamper, for a supper washed down by the 



wine of the country, and for home. Every village in the duchy 



•of Baden has its clean hostelry and its very drinkable wine. 



Could you but transport thither the tea-house moosmies of 



Japan to infuse merriment and picturesqueness into the scene — 



bah ! as well say, could you but make a sausage into a vol-au- 



vent. Baden, with all its charms, is not the land of the Holy 



Mountain. Grandly beautiful, though, it looked in the setting 



-sun — as the red orb dipped behind the Vosges Mountains, and 



the queen of night at the same moment rose clear and round 



.above the dark brows of the Black Forest ranges ahead. 



Comfortably and contentedly we drove back in the cool 



•evening — across the half-harvested plain, and past cart after 



•cart laden sky-high with golden grain and laughing peasant 



girls. The fair ladies (save the mark — but bless their jolly 



faces) seemed by no means worn or depressed by the work of 



the day ; and the gay young Teuton beside me got many a 



joyous response to his gallant sallies, while I perforce lolled 



back in dumb propriety. 



To have seen the sport was something — might have been 

 •enough (for, after all, was it quite an orthodox and honest 

 ianethod of game-killing ?) But 'twould have been rank ex- 

 travagance to have rested content, now that the piper was paid, 

 .and one was still bidden to dance. Besides, however much 

 one's fastidious soul might rebel against the method, there was 

 at least this to be said in its favour, that the victims were only 

 •of the superfluous sex. No need of " 'Ware doe," or whatever 

 may be its synonym in German. Also, as one's permit-card 

 .said plainly, roebuck were the only game at present in season — 

 .and they enforce the game laws closely and fairly in Germany, 



