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foxes, jackals, wild boar, and many kinds of 

 wino-ed <j[-ame. To show what a dachshund 

 will do, I may mention a little bitch I took 

 with me on the trip to Albania, described in 

 another chapter. She had only one evening 

 to make the acquaintance of our skipper, 

 but nevertheless when told went readily 

 with him and the huo'e Albanian doo:s. 

 All day she hunted roe, pig, and jackal 

 till, in the evening, she could hardly crawl, 

 and her ears were perfectly hairless. 

 (Those who have been to Albania know 

 w^hat the thorns are there.) Next clay 

 we left her on the yacht, and on l^he third 

 day she was as ready as ever, and worked 

 all day. Ground and beaters were quite 

 strange to her, and she had never hunted 

 any furred game but hares, and those more 

 than a year before this. Was this not a 



