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to it, and his accomplishments were far more suited 

 to the opera than the kennel. 



Game of all kinds he found extraordinarily scarce a 

 fact to be accounted for by the lack of preservation. 

 Everyone who possessed a gun scoured the country 

 on Sundays and killed whatever came in his way. And 

 there was an equal dearth of sport in the streams for 

 a similar reason. 



For the wild boar, as an animal of chase, Berkeley 

 expresses great respect. The charge of an old boar 

 he describes as terrific, and he gives a graphic picture 

 of an old tusked " solitaire " at bay seated, as the 

 French say, " in his arm-chair," squatting on his hams, 

 with a tree to cover his rear, with fourteen out of 

 eighteen hounds that had attacked him lying dead or 

 crippled around him. A five months' old boar, too, 

 after being severely wounded by a bullet, kept up a 

 running fight for two hours against eight or nine hounds, 

 and would have escaped had not a second shot laid him 

 low. This does not speak well for the prowess of the 

 hounds ; but then, what could you expect of hounds that 

 chased a marten-cat for two hours and then tailed off 

 from their quarry dead beat ? 



Altogether it was very poor sport indeed that Grantley 

 Berkeley had in the forests of France with his host the 

 Vicomte d'Anchold. In energy, perseverance, courage, 

 and love of sport he found the French sportsmen second 

 to none. They could shoot well and ride well, but of 

 wood-craft and hunting, of the treatment of hounds and 

 sporting dogs, they knew absolutely nothing. It is 

 interesting to note that Grantley Berkeley's experiences 



