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tioning this detail, which is hardly pertinent to 

 the matter. 



For stalking other game ten or twelve differ- 

 ent tracks have been made, which also lead to 

 the finest parts of the wood. These are divided 

 among the guests strictly as their temporary prop- 

 erty, so that each one may make use only of the 

 one designated for him, and is certain, therefore, 

 to avoid any accident on it. The huntsmen would 

 consider it a very unbecoming intrusion on the 

 rights of the others if anybody refused to abide 

 by this rule. Therefore, the possessor may be cer- 

 tain day and night of being able to follow his 

 pleasure, comme il I'entend. I owe this contrivance, 

 as practical as it is pleasant, to the kindly assist- 

 ance of Herr Oberforstmeister and Professor 

 Pfeil in Berlin, after whom one of these laby- 

 rinthine, serpentine paths is even now called the 

 "Pfeilstrasse." 



Here there is such a number of splendid trees 

 that I could not deny myself the pleasure of 

 having two of them portrayed. Plate XLI rep- 

 resents a spruce tree standing alone, only one 

 hundred feet high, it is true, but from which 

 masses of needles hang down from the lowest 

 branches to the length of seven feet. I once had 

 it illuminated with paper lanterns in the form 

 of colossal fruits like a Christmas tree, such a 

 Christmas tree as perhaps has never been seen 

 elsewhere. Plate XLII shows a remarkably 

 shaped oak, eighty-five feet high, with a cir- 

 cumference of the trunk of twenty-four feet one 



