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antlers, the finest stags of Hungary. So powerful an animal has no 

 fear of wolves, but lynxes are among its most dreaded foes. 



Wild boars are also abundant and of great size, but so uncertain 

 are they in their movements from one day to another, that the sports- 

 man never knows where they may be found on the 



Wild Boar, 

 morrow. They are in the habit ot quitting their 



native forests on autumn evenings to ravage the maize crops, and 



may then be shot with the aid of beaters. The bag, however, is 



always uncertain, for it not unfrequently happens that they dash back 



through the line and escape to a great distance. 



Wolves are also found all over the country, and do the greatest 



damage to livestock and game. They are shot in autumn with 



beaters, the most likely spots, as for bear, being in the 



Wolf, 

 dense thicket. In winter, on the other hand, the 



practice is to lie in ambush near a carcase, or near a young pig 

 tethered and pinched by the ear to make it squeak. Very warily, 

 and with mincing steps, the wolf nears its victim, constantly sniffing 

 the air, for which reason the sportsman will run less risk of being- 

 scented if posted in a tree. It need hardly be said, however, that 

 wolf-shooting is in any form devoid of danger. 



Both the lynx and wild cat are trapped, not shot. It is exceedingly 

 rare for the beaters to put up either of these beasts, for at the first 

 suspicion of danofer they clamber up a tree and there 

 lie motionless and invisible along one of the stoutest wild Cat. 

 branches. 



There is nothine remarkable in the local methods of shooting either 

 hare, fox, or roedeer, though it may, perhaps, be noted that the last- 



