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that strew the brooks of Vallombrosa." Everything 

 was propitious : circumstance, situation and effect ; for 

 he was descending the mountain in full view of our 

 whole assemblage of sportsmen. A fine stag, in the 

 midst of the herd fell to the crack of his rifle. " Hah, 

 hah ! " forward ran the Count, and sat upon the prostrate 

 deer triumphing. " H bien y mon ami, vous etes mort 

 done! Moijefais toujours des coups stirs. Ah! pauvre 

 enfant I " He then patted the sides of the animal in 

 pure wantonness, and looked east, west, north, and 

 south for applause, the happiest of the happy ; finally 

 he extracted a mosaic snuff-box from his pocket, and 

 with an air that nature has denied to all save the French 

 nation, he held a pinch to the deer's nose. " Prends, mon 

 amiy prends done? This operation had scarcely been 

 performed when the hart, which had only been stunned, 

 or perhaps shot through the loins, sprang up suddenly, 

 overturned the Count, ran away, and was never seen 

 again. 



" Arrete-toi, traitre> arrete> mon enfant I Ah, c'est un 

 enfant perdu ! A lies done a tons les diables ! " 



Thus ended the Count's chasse. Everybody was sorry, 

 and nobody laughed ; as for me, by my troth I never 

 follow the Frenchman's fashion in deer-stalking." 



As a specimen of what was deemed good sport in 

 those days, take the following description of a deer- 

 drive in the Atholl Forest. " Tortoise," I should state, is 

 Scrope himself, the crafty, wary old hunter, as he loved 

 to picture himself; "Lightfoot" and Harry are his 

 friends Edwin and Charles Landseer. 



" See the noble herd are come in view ! Na-Shean- 



