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the patient a draught of fresh cold water, which she 

 lapped with the greatest relish. So carefully had 1 

 brought the skin of this extensive wound together, 

 that when Barricade was invited to walk to a stable, 

 she did not show the least symptoms of stiffness in 

 the motions of her limbs. Having done all in my 

 power to assuage her sufferings, I then went to the 

 little inn for some mulled wine and a crust of bread. 

 In talking over the events of the day, it turned out 

 that, besides this old boar, there were no less than 

 three wolves in the woods where w^e found him, 

 although the limiers gave notice of neither of the 

 larger game ; and, what was funnier still — be it 

 remembered that this was on Michaelmas-day — 

 Jules d'Anchald and one or two of the blouses came 

 upon a wolf, despite the noise of the horns and cry 

 of the running hounds, in the act, and in broad day- 

 light, of coolly eating his goose ; and I was told they 

 got the goose before life was quite extinct. While I 

 was attending on the hounds, and enjoying this really 

 fine day's sport, Jules, accompanied by a blouse, 

 were taking up a position in a likely pass ; and while 

 endeavouring to select a good ambush, the blouse 

 seeing a patch of bushes and long grass on the edge 

 of a hole in the surface of the ground at some little 

 distance from Jules, proceeded to install himself in it. 



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