HUNTING DIRECTORY. 283 



Of Shooting Boars. 



smell, and the fore foot, which is given to the huntsman, 

 who presents it to the leader of the company, the ])oar 

 is carried off. Before they return, the dogs are in- 

 spected, and those that have received wounds are 

 dressed, as the huntsman ought to he provided with 

 needles, thread, and every thing necessary for that piu'- 

 pose. 



Dogs do not eat the flesh of the boar with as much 

 avidity as that of the stag ; nor must it ever be presented 

 to them raw. All that is in general given them is the 

 shoulders and the intestines cut in pieces, and boiled in 

 water. 



In some parts, small bells are fostened to the necks of 

 hounds that hunt the boar and the wolf. If it is not in- 

 tended to hunt down the boar, but only to shoot him, 

 an equipage becomes perfectly useless ; one or two blood 

 hounds, and a few good hounds are, in this case, quite 

 sufficient. Nay, you need then only employ the mastiffs 

 with which the gamekeepers traverse the forests where 

 the boars couch, and drive them towards the spot where 

 the hunters are posted. 



In Germany, and occasionally in France, very fine 

 sport is obtained by limiting of boars, and likewise of 

 stags, with toils. An enclosure is formed with toils and 

 pitchforks, round the thickets into which the boars have 

 been driven. A huntsman sets his blood hound upon 

 the scent, and follows him till he has reared the game. 

 Five or six hounds are then slipped: this number is suf- 

 ficient to hunt a large boar ; but if there are several, the 

 whole pack is taken.- 



