194 A MONTH IN THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



Stretcher of sufficient length, with a notch at either 

 end to sustain and extend the hocks of the boar, also 

 a stout cord. By these means I would haul up the 

 carcase of the boar to the bough of a tree, as near as 

 possible to the spot where he was killed, and then 

 and there, while the hounds were yet warm with 

 their triumph, I would reward them with the entrails 

 and paunch, having first shaken the body and head 

 of the boar at them and roused their animosity. 

 After the liounds had had their immediate triumph, 

 then reward the men or those who can afford to wait, 

 and let the boar be carried, much lighter for the 

 good he had done the pack, to any place that was desir- 

 able. Masters of hounds hunting the boar and wolf 

 would do well to remember this most important fact. 

 Hounds cannot triumph over the boar without man's 

 aid, nor over the wolf, unless the pack is numerically 

 strong and up to the mark in constitutional ability or 

 condition. Therefore, man must reward the hounds 

 on the bodies of their slain animal, as they cannot 

 reward themselves. 



Before the old keeper had gained possession of the 

 fry, word was brought me that poor Barricade had been 

 carried into a neighbouring cottage, and in her aid I 

 called up every knowledge of or skill in wounds that I 

 possessed. She was, of course, very weak from copious 



