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the harvest being exceedingly early, I repaired to Khein. 

 Bischoffttheim, being determined to have a little quiet par- 

 tridge-shooting as a solo, instead of the usual chorus. 



The birds were pretty well grown by the middle of 

 August, and in large coveys. I killed, also, a fair share of 

 hares and leverets; and about the beginning of September 

 did not neglect a pheasant when he came in my way, so 

 that the price of my game, with the exception of the little I 

 saved for my own eating, amounted to a good round sum 

 at Baden-Baden in the course of the two months, and went 

 far towards the expenses of the chasse. I obtained a Napo- 

 leon each for roedeer, and five francs for a pheasant. About 

 the latter end of September I was compelled by circumstances 

 to return to England, and therefore made over my shootings 

 to two English gentlemen who were anxious to take them. 

 They were not so fortunate as I was, as the Revolution 

 breaking out shortly afterwards, they lost both their guns 

 and dogs, and were even glad to escape with their lives. 

 Nearly all the game in M. Voelker's and the surrounding 

 jagden were destroyed by the peasantry during the period 

 of this revolution, and is only now slowly recovering 

 its former abundance. Few countries, however, possess the 

 same local advantages for its propagation and preservation, 

 as the Grand Duchy of Baden-Baden. Although the trout 

 and grayling in its rivers are not generally very large, still 

 they are abundant. Nothing can be more picturesque and 

 exquisitely beautiful than many of its valleys; and the 

 facilities afforded by the railway of exchanging the rough 

 habits of the sportsman for all the elegancies, luxuries, and 

 amusements of civilized life in the most delightful watering- 

 place in the world, in the space of a few hours at most, all 

 tend to render this country a most eligible temporary resi- 

 dence for the wanderer in search of the picturesque, with 

 sport and economy combined, 



