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wolves would be back in covert from their 

 midnight maraudings, and if our places were 

 not taken before that, not a wolf would be 

 found to reward our vigil when the beaters 

 came through. So, with scarcely the keenness 

 that the promise of a wolf hunt should rouse 

 in a sportsman's breast, we shook ourselves 

 tocyether, and casting rueful glances at the 

 warm couches from which we had been torn, 

 lit our pipes and prepared for the raw morning 

 air. 



At the last moment a head beater came 

 up with a long face to say that the rain had 

 begun to descend in torrents. A long parley 

 here ensued, the result of which was that the 

 hunters voted nem. con. a wolf drive in rain 

 only so much labour lost ; and assuring us 

 that we should have better luck to-morrow, 

 tbey all trooped downstairs and rattled off 

 home again in their jolting old droschkies as 

 happy as virtuous princes should be. 



