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valued at five thousand francs. He has also won many inter- 

 national events at JNIonte Carlo, and other places in France. 

 His crowning achievement was the winning of "the grand prize 

 and cup, the best prize in England, in 1899. He has also met 

 many of our best American shots, in our own country and 

 abroad. An idea of his skill may be had from a single incident. 

 On the opening day's shoot, in the Chateau de Vieusart, Bel- 

 gium, he killed one hundred and two out of one hundred and 

 three live partridges. At pistol shooting the Baron de Dor- 

 lodot is considered invincible. "He is sure," says Le Sport 

 Universal, "to hit a five cent piece, three times out of four, at 

 thirty paces, while at fencing he is so clever, supple and rapid 

 of execution that even the professional swordsmen of France 

 stand very much in awe of him." He is much devoted to yacht- 

 ing. At one time he kept a racing stud, but a few unsports- 

 manlike acts on the part of competitors disgusted him with the 

 game and although he loves the horse, and especially the thor- 

 oughbred, he prefers a pastime that calls for personal skill and 

 exertion. 



In hunting the wild boar, the Baron de Dorlodot finds the 

 one sport that above all others is best suited to his taste and 

 wonderful ability. Wild boar hunting requires a man of the 

 highest courage, the temper of steel, wonderful endurance, 

 "stick-to-it-iveness," and an inborn love of the forest and the 

 chase. During the thirty years the Baron de Dorlodot has been 

 engaged in wild boar hunting, over one thousand wild boars 

 have fallen to his skill. A great many hounds have been cheered 

 on to their death by the Baron who, single handed, has come to 

 their rescue, and with a short sword (blade about twenty 

 inches), the infuriated boar has been sent to the land of his 

 fathers. It is not at all an uncommon occurrence to have three 

 or four dead hounds lying about the spot where the wild boar 

 makes a stand," and as many more wounded, and sent yelping 

 and flying in all directions. Many of the Baron's hounds, and 



