114 A MAN IMPALED. 



wallet, suspended to the man's shoulders, the wound did not 

 prove mortal. The Chasseur stated, moreover, that at no 

 very remote period, an individual was supposed to have met 

 his death from the like cause ; but as the body, when found, 

 was at some little distance from the Led, from whence it was 

 believed to have been secretly removed, and in a state of nearly 

 total decomposition, the fact could not be brought home to 

 the owner of the engine, and he was not therefore put upon 

 his trial. 



In certain parts of Scandinavia many elks are shot in 

 Skalls. During the winter, and when there is snow upon 

 the ground, so that the animals can be previously ringed, 

 Skalls, if well conducted, are generally successful. But those 

 that take place in the summer time, on the contrary, owing 

 to the locale of the deer being less certain, very frequently 

 prove failures ; such at least is the case in the Wermeland 

 and Dalecarlian forests. Great execution is, nevertheless, at 

 times done in summer Skalls, as evidenced in those under 

 the command of the famous Andreas Schonberg, of which 

 mention was made in the first volume of this work. Only 

 three or four years ago, indeed, M. Falk thus destroyed 

 fourteen to fifteen elks in a single day ; but then it must 

 be borne in mind that one thousand or twelve hundred 

 men took part in this hunt, which embraced a very great 

 extent of country. 



I myself never happened to be present at an elk Skall on 

 a large scale ; but at those in a small way I have seen that 

 animal shot. A somewhat singular incident occurred to me 

 on one of these occasions. 



We were a party of eight. The elk was ringed, and as 

 luck would have it, the dimensions of the circle were small. 



