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trees, settled ourselves for the long wait. 
We v.ailed all ri.ght. We sat there until 
nearly nine o'clock that niglit, but no boar. 
So vve wended our way liomo to our liillet 
in disgust, but thoroughly convinced that 
the saying “Hog wild'’ had originated in 
France. 
We tried it day after day, with no suc- 
cess. It leaked out finally ■what we were 
after, and you ought to have heard the 
laugh we got. But I had more than one 
man ask to go along with us during the 
succeeding weeks. It was great sport 
tramping around the country, and the 
time flew by. I was busy in the evenings 
all this time though, and finally got 
wliat I wanted. We determined the first 
week that the only successful way to get a 
shot at the boar was to employ dogs to 
drive them. Twice avo saw boar at a dis- 
tance, but ncA'er managed to get close 
enough. They are the shyest animals I 
ever ran across. So I worked myself into 
the good graces of several of the French- 
men iu the tow’n, and finally got myself 
and Chris invited to hunt with a pack^ of 
Airedales. 
T he next Sunday we were off about 
nine o’clock, — eleven of us,'- with 
three Airedales and a couple of ter- 
riers at our heels. The day w'as beauti- 
ful, sunny, cool and clear, with a heavy 
frost on the ground. We made our way 
up into the hills in a long line abreast of 
each other, and at about nine-thirty the 
dogs gave tongue, and we were off. We 
surely had a merry morning. Most of the 
Frenchmen carried smooth bore rifles that 
shot a sort of home-made cartridge of 
slugs. It was a mystery to me how they 
ever managed to hit anything, and I 
found out that they lived up to my expec- 
tations. 
Apparently the dogs had cornered all 
the wild boar in France in that one patch 
of woods from the noise they were mak- 
ing. Chris and I wanted to go in with 
them, but nothing doing. Too much 
chance of shooting the dogs one French- 
man told me. So we surrounded the woods 
on all sides, and w’aited to see who would 
get the first shot. Meantime there was an 
awful racket in the woods. Three or four 
of the men had horns, and of all the toot- 
ing and yeling and tally-ho-ing I ne\’er 
heard the like. My nerv'es were all keyed 
up in no time, and I just prayed for a 
shot, hut the Gods decided otherwise, for 
the noise worked away from me, and 
pretty soon I hoard two shots on the other 
side of the woods, and a lot of yelling. I 
ran as fast as I could and arrived at one 
corner of the forest just in time to see 
four wild boar pass at about five hundred 
yards, going like the wind into the next 
strip of woods. I threw a shot into the 
leader, a gigantic boar, but he was going 
so fast and Avas so far off that I didn’t 
stand a chance and came mighty near 
hitting one of the dogs, Avho was close on 
the heels of the herd. I ran on, and by 
the time I got to the spot found that four 
other men had superseded me. The 
Frenchmen had that £pat ii^d killed 
a young boar, and there was' wild jubila- 
tion. jluch liaiid linking and putting on 
the back, and a ivgular cloud of smoke 
going up from the pipes of the four of 
them. 1 joined in on the congraulaiious, 
but found out afterwards that, much to 
his disgust, the man had missed the big 
boar at close range, and had sniped the 
little fellow, who ran next with his second 
shot. He was carrying a double barreled 
shotgun of antique design, loaded with 
buck shot, and must have gotten an attack 
of the ague to haA’c missed so close. He 
couldn't have been more than fifty feet 
off when they passed. 
M’'e stood around until the rest of the 
party came up, and it was decided to leaA’e 
the boar there, slung in a tree, and go on 
to another jiatch of Avoods, for the French- 
men said that it was no carthl.v use to try 
and follow the rest of that herd. 
The dogs were well trained and seemed 
to understand what their limitations were, 
for with the exception of the one dog who 
followed the herd, the rest were easily 
called off, and we were on our way again. 
This dog didn't show up again for nearly 
an hour, and was scA’erelj' whipped when 
he did, though I didn’t blame him for 
keeping on after the game. 
'W’'e struck our next bunch about tAAo 
miles further on, and I witnessed a battle 
royal between the dogs and an old boar, 
whom they had bayed. It didn’t last long, 
for he played out soon, having been se- 
verely wounded by one of the French- 
men. This was an enormous beast, stand- 
ing nearly four feet off the ground, and 
had great tusks. I would haA-e liked to 
have been the one to haA-e done for him. 
That ended the hunt and we proceeded 
home in triumph, bearing the two boars, 
slung on poles in the most approved an- 
cient style. I helped eat part of the little 
one, but cannot say that it made much in 
the way of a treat. 
We went out seA’eral times after this, 
and though we got our boar every time, I 
never landed one myself, and when we 
pulled out for Bordeaux the day after 
_ Christmas on our way home, I was almost 
sorry that 1 could not spend some time 
more with the good friends that I had 
made there in pursuit of “fe sanglicr.” 
THE MUSKALLONGE. 
To The Editor of Foacsx and Stbeam: 
I N the article on the muskallonge in the 
September number Mr. Graham has 
some comment on the origin of the 
fish’s name. Last season in Northern 
Quebec I had an Indian guide who told 
me that he was of the “Tite de Buii’ 
tribe, a name that he pronounced so rap- 
idly that it sounded like some bovine 
phase of Teddy Bearl His people lived in 
between the Montaignais and (I think) 
the Abitibi and in the old days were Avell 
nigh exterminated by the Iroquois. This 
man's name for the fish AA'as mijaski 
kinonge (grass pike). 
yujTAM Q Dobxix, New York. 
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