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to work ; always call on the mayor of any little 

 bourg where you may be staying ; hire a man of 

 the place who knows the country well to go with 

 you, carry the game, your brandy, and a fair 

 supply of tobacco for the peasants ; be polite 

 and liberal with what you shoot, and you are 

 all right. 



Debenham and myself got on first rate, meet- 

 ing with uniform kindness and permission to 

 shoot. We generally went by ourselves, going 

 out early and returning late. The way we 

 managed was to put one of the horses in his 

 dog-cart, which he had got from England, pack, 

 up a change of clothes, take two brace of dogs, 

 and one of the servants, and be off for a week, 

 roaming about from place to place, as our fancy 

 dictated. 



Debenham was a man of inventive genius, 

 and as he did not like the little dirty cabarets we 

 were sometimes obliged to stop at, determined 

 to have a house of his own, which he accom- 

 plished in this way. He sent to England, and 

 bought a two-horse racing van for a " song." 

 This he had fitted up as a complete 'house, the 

 large let-down door was closed up behind, and 



