304 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



'Twould be in all the papers too, 

 The King of it would hear ; 



Why, who knows but he 'd say, ' I '11 have 

 Him made Head-Forester' ? 



" Should a wolf come, 'twould also do : 



Yes, — wolves they prowl far round, 

 And such a place as this they like, 



Where something's to be found. 

 A bran-new rifle then I 'd have, 



As handsome as could be ; 

 And carved upon the stock a wolf, 



With date, that all might see. 

 And should one at a shooting-match 



Ask 'From the city, eh?' 

 * No, no, 'tis his who shot the wolf,' 



Is what they all would say." 



And so with rifle ready cocked, 

 He sits, and thinks, and thinks, 



Till it grows dark ; but nothing comes, 

 Bear, chamois, wolf, nor lynx. 



