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years' acquaintance with them, they would never 

 live with our English ones, especially with such 

 a pack as Badminton can turn out, and I confess 

 I should much like the experiment tried. My 

 impression is they would run into their wolf, 

 which few packs have ever been able to accom- 

 plish fairly. I have known them live for days 

 before different meutes, regular relays of dogs 

 brought against them, and then go off as if they 

 had never been hunted at all. 



Arriving at La Hardouhnay , we found it a 

 large long forest ; the village just above over- 

 looked it, and, as seen from there, was really 

 a fine view. It lay, dark and solemn, be- 

 neath us, and we were charmed at the prospect 

 of the sport we were likely to have. It was a 

 charcoal forest, that is, a forest where the smaller 

 wood is cut and burnt for charcoal. Others are 

 called sabot forests, where larger timber is cut, 

 and made into wooden shoes. The huts in all 

 these forests are miserable, very different from 

 the log huts in the backwoods of America, 

 which are generally comfortable. 



This forest had plenty of boar, wolf, and 

 chevreuil in it. As the two former were to be 



