62 A MONTH IN THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



mistress, and study from the very fact. Ye, oh ye 

 misbelievers ! have told me of the wolf. You say you 

 used to think it an advantage to find the wolf early 

 in the morning when he had just gorged himself with 

 prey ; but (there's that terrible little word again), but 

 you gain no advantage by it, for the wolf, on finding 

 himself pursued, and that he must exert speed and 

 endurance, had the sense and the power to throw up 

 his food, and gallop away too empty and too fast and 

 stout for you, with your full-stomached hounds, to 

 catch. Rule your actions then from nature, if not 

 from me, and learn a lesson — albeit a wolf is your 

 preceptor. To-morrow, all well, my boys, we join 

 M. E. Bruneau and M. Lucas and their hounds in an 

 attack on wolves; and oh for strange fun and the 

 break of day ! " 



