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heard ; for when he makes it, all baying around him 

 for the moment ceases, as every hound has to save 

 himself and get out of the way. The only cry that 

 is occasionally heard during the charge proceeds from 

 some unhappy individual of the pack whose life or 

 limbs are sacrificed to the boar's fury. His road 

 being for a space thus cleared, the chase again conti- 

 nues for a minute or two with a lively hunting cry, 

 but soon assumes the sullen roar which proclaims the 

 old solitary once more in his arm-chair. When an 

 old boar of this sort, with all his power about him 

 and unwounded, turns to bay, and, either from dis- 

 tress or from anger, ceases to fly, then, unless the 

 gentleman makes in in aid of the hounds, the whole 

 pack, one hound after the other, may be destroyed. 

 In one of these encounters, M. d'Anchald had four- 

 teen out of eighteen hounds killed or put liors de com- 

 bat ere the vieux solitaire succumbed. 



Thus it will be seen that to ensure sport, or, indeed 

 to be certain of having any pack at all, more hounds 

 are needed than for the chase of either stag or fox in 

 England. From the weak packs that the French 

 huntsmen take out for the boar or wolf, the animals 

 of chase, and the old boar particularly, do not care to 

 fly ; and the latter, as on the day the occurrences of 

 which I have just recounted, will keep walking and 



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