PREFACE, 



*' Oh, brother writers, sporting men, 

 Gun in your hand as well as pen, 

 The old as well as youthful — 

 I caution all against that bow, 

 Too long at times, as ye Avell know, 

 Tor useful tales or truthful ; 

 I pray you henceforth be exact — 

 Fiction's not half so strange as fact ! " 



Berkeley. 



In thus offering to the Public an account of the 

 Chase of the Wolf and Boar, as shared in by me in 

 the beautiful Forests of France, I am not without the 

 hope that these pages will afford amusement to the 

 readers of either sex, and hence I have placed them 

 under the sanction made apparent by the Dedication. 

 Throughout the work it has been my object never 

 to overstep the legitimate run of facts as they 

 occurred ; and I would impress upon all my brother 

 Sportsmen, who either have written or are to write 



