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must be taken through it in couples to the place of 

 meeting. 



Our pack was scanty enough, from the sickness in 

 the kennel before alluded to ; and among the little lot 

 were Saxon and some others not fit to go, and all the 

 rogues and cripples. At last we came to a new road, 

 made by the Government for the service of the woods, 

 running straight through the forest from horizon to 

 horizon, and of ample dimensions ; and here it was 

 intended for myself and Jules to lie in ambush (M. 

 d'Anchald having remained at home that day), 

 while Maurice and the horn-player went to arouse a 

 roe. On these occasions, when on foot, my friends 

 wore a small crooked hunting-horn, such as we have 

 in England, slung from the shoulder ; and before 

 going out we agreed on certain signals on our horns, 

 to telegraph the kind of game aroused, or the usual 

 points of chase. Maurice d'Anchald has everything 

 in him to make a good huntsman ; he is cool and 

 steady, much freer from noise than his countrymen 

 the French huntsmen in general, and is possessed of 

 great good temper and untiring zeal. 



After Jules and myself had severed to take up our 

 positions, and I had chosen the stems of some trees 

 growing close together, whence I could see into the 

 high copsewood in front, as well as command a view 



