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HUNTING DEER IN FRANCE. 
A CORRESPONDENT who has for some time past 
been staying at La Chesnaye, in the Department 
of Indre, where Count M. de Lesseps hunts his 
pack of roe hounds twice a week in season, 
gives, in the London Field, the following inter- 
esting description of the manners and customs 
connected with the hunting there: 
The manner of hunting, has not changed for 
centuries, and the methods of finding and hunt- 
ing the game, as described by Jacques du 
Fouilloux in his book on Venerie, published in 
the middle of the sixteenth century, are exactly 
the same as are employed now. 
The hounds are of mixed blood, the Poitevin 
being preeminent; they are similar to English 
foxhounds, but taller and of a slighter build; 
give tongue well, and have first rate staying 
powers. 
The French hunt more for the killing of. the 
game than for the riding, and though it is a 
different form of amusement to that which 
people are accustomed to in the hunting field in 
this, country, it is real sport and not to be 
despised. 
In the early morning the keepers go out 
and mark down the roe as they return to the 
wood after their morning’s feed. Until the 
arrival of the hounds their movements are care- 
fully watched and then the hunt begins. Each 
horseman carries round his body a huge old- 
fashioned hunting horn, with which every phase 
of the hunt is heralded. For instance, when the 
hounds find there is one blast, when the roe 
breaks covert another, and so on, each one con- 
veying a distinct message to every sporting 
Frenchman, but being altogether unintelligible 
to a foreigner. 
The correct hunting kit consists of a coat and 
breeches with facings—which vary according to 
the family colors of the master—wellingtons and 
white woolen stockings drawn well over the 
knee and. showing above the boot. The stock- 
ings date from the time of Louis XV., when 
they were fashionable for everyday wear. A 
dagger, fastened to a gold belt, with which to 
despatch the deer, is also worn, as is an ordi- 
nary velvet cap similar to that worn in England. 
On the Friday in question hounds set out at 
10 o'clock and soon found their quarry, which 
had been marked down by a keeper. A blast 
on the horn announced the beginning of the 
hunt and all cantered to their places in various 
cuttings, which were watched in case the roe 
should break away. For some time the buck 
dodged the hounds, but had to escape eventually 
by passing one of the cuttings. Another blast 
on the horn and the field followed the hounds, 
who were giving tongue well, through the wood 
into another, over fields, along roads, and 
through a river, till the quarry was come up 
with after a three-hours’ run with only one 
check. The master gave it the coup de grace, 
and then all fell in in line in front of the master, 
who sounded the Chesnaye Rallye fanfare, which 
was repeated by the company—a curious Old 
World custom. 
THE GROWTH OF GROUSE. 
NOTHING is more astonishing to the occasional 
visitor among the heather, who understands little 
about grouse, than the rapidity with which the 
young birds become mature. It is no rare thing 
to find partridges quite unfit for sport on the 
Ist of September, but grouse are seldom behind 
when the season opens; in fact, they are often 
fit for shooting before July is out. We can 
only attribute their rapid growth to the abun- 
dance of food which exists on a moor, for, how- 
ever badly heather is managed, it is not lack- 
ing in this respect during the breeding season 
of the grouse. Of course, grouse are hatched 
long before: partridges, but, for all that, their 
progress is more speedy, and the youngsters prob- 
ably fly at an earlier age than any other young 
game. Grouse are really very hardy and vigor- 
ous, and it is a pity other young game birds do 
not follow their lead in that regard—British 
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