238 SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



and every eye is strained with expectation upon them, and 

 the different points of the line they are approaching, this 

 reckless individual, anxious to display the killing powers of 

 his " Egg" or " Purdey" before a German audience, lets fly 

 both barrels at the first hare or two that arrives within fifty 

 or sixty yards of him, which shot, whether successful or 

 not, is looked upon as an act of wanton folly by the majority 

 of the chasseurs, and has generally the effect of driving all the 

 hares in that part of the line back towards the beaters, from 

 whence, however, they are soon forced to return, and as the 

 semicircle closes in, and the hares rush up to the very noses 

 of the sportsmen, an immense deal of firing and indiscriminate 

 slaughter takes place, not unattended with some danger to 

 themselves and the beaters, both of which are sometimes 

 wounded by careless shooting. By this mode of proceeding, 

 and with Mr. Vcelker, I have seen three hundred hares 

 killed during a day's shooting with the Grand Duke of 

 Baden, and on some of the large chasses near Frankfort from 

 five hundred to a thousand have been bagged ! 



By far the best description of treibe jagkt, and where the 

 greatest variety of game is met with, are the drives and battues 

 in the forest and woods. The same system is pursued with 

 regard to the beaters, although they have infinitely harder 

 work to perform than on the plains, and are of course better 

 paid. The chasseurs, instead of being placed in line, are 

 rather made to surround, if possible, the portion of woodland 

 to be beaten, and the intervening distances at which they 

 are placed are increased. One barrel is generally loaded with 

 swan-shot, in case of finding roebuck ; does and hen-pheasants 

 are usually strictly forbidden to be killed, under penalties 

 of a Napoleon for the former, and five francs for the latter. 



The game found and killed in considerable numbers on 

 these occasions were roebuck, hares, rabbits, pheasants, some 

 partridges, woodcock?, and a species of wood-grouse, or geli- 



