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bagged quail, partridge, and landrail ; and when I 

 returned to the chateau, discovered that an old 

 servant of M. d'Anchald, who was at the present 

 time keeper over a distant district of the forest, had 

 sent to say that he knew of several wild boars, and 

 among them a huge solitary of the largest size, upon 

 whom he felt sure he could put the hounds. 



On hearing this gratifying intelligence from a 

 trustworthy man, Maurice d'Anchald, taking a limier 

 with him, at once started for the little village in 

 which the keeper lived, in order to assist in harbour- 

 ing the boar for the following morning, while we 

 looked to our guns and prepared everything for an 

 early start, passing the evening in delightful antici- 

 pation of having to make in on my lord while seated 

 in his terrible arm-chair. 



