264 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Of Trying for the Wolf. 



The Search for the Wolf. — The wolf is tried for in 

 various ways, according to the difference of the seasons. 

 If it be in winter, you should go to the wood some time 

 before sunrise, because that is about the time when the 

 wolves repair to it. In summer there is no occasion to 

 go so early, because those animals frequently stay among 

 the corn, and do not return to the wood till the day is 

 advanced ; therefore, without being in too great a hurry, 

 it will be sufficient to beat twice along the skirts of the 

 thicket towards the corn ; and, if you meet with nothing, 

 it will be advisable, on your return, to beat the contrary 

 side. 



There is a considerable difference between trying for 

 the stag and the wolf. The former remains a long time 

 in the thickets ; sometimes he does not even leave them 

 to pass the night in the open fields : but the conduct of 

 the wolf is exactly the reverse. Hunger, it is said, 

 drives him out of the wood ; and as he subsists entirely 

 by carnage, he frequently approaches farms, villages, and 

 even towns, and seizes whatever falls in his way. If, by 

 accident, he remains a considerable time in a thicket 

 without quitting it, even during the night, it is only when 

 he has taken a deer, or some other animal that he is 

 occupied in devouring. 



When the assistant huntsman shall have arrived with 

 his limier, or blood hound, at the place containing the 

 object of search, he must loosen the leash, and make his 

 dog advance before him more than half the length of it, 

 continually caressing him and saying — Va outre Ribaut 

 hau mon valet, hau lo lo lo lo, iieleci, veleci alle mon 

 petit. It is well frequently to repeat these w^ords, because 



