t$^ THbrCHTS UPdN* HUNTING. 



have feen very little of it. It is true, I hunted 

 two winters at Turin ; but their hunting, you 

 knowj is no more like our's, than is the liot meal 

 we there Hood up to, eat, to the Englifli breakfaft 

 we lit down to here. — 'Were I to defcribe their 

 manner of hunting, their infinity of dogs, their 

 number of huntfmen, their relays of horfes, 

 their great faddlcs, great bitts, and jack boots, it 

 would be no more to our prefent purpofe, than the 

 defcription of a wild boar chafe in Germany, or 

 the hunting of jackalls in Bengal. Ce/l tine 

 chajfe magnifiquc^ et volla tout. — However, to give 

 you an idea of their huntfmen, I muft tell you 

 that one day the flag, which is very unufual, 

 broke cover and left the forefi: ; a circumflance, 

 which gave as much pleafure to me, as difplcafure 

 to all the reft — it put every thing into confuiion. 

 I followed one of the huntfmen, thinking he knew 

 the country befl, but it was not long before we 

 were feparated ; the firfl ditch we came to flopped 

 him : I, eager to go on, hallooed out to him, 

 allofzs, Piqueur, fautez donc.—^^ Non pardi,^' re- 

 plied he, very coolly, " cejl un double fojje—je ne 



''^faiite pas des doubles fojps. There was alfoan 



odd accident the fame day, which, has it hap- 

 pened to a great man, even to the Kin^ himfelf, 

 you may think interefting ; befides, it was the oc- 

 cahon of a bon mot worth your hearing. — The 

 King, eager in the purfuit, rode into a bog, and 

 was difmounted — he was not hurt — he was foon 



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