. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . es the pi ice thatproved fatal to him, and requests the performance of the Wt dutiesio his corpse. After this picture (says M. Saussure,) of the lifeivhich the chamois hunters lead, could one imagine that ths chasewould be the object of a passion absolutely unsurmount&ble ? Iknew a well-made, handsome man, who had just married a beau-tiful woman:—My grand-father, said he to me, lost his lifein the chase; so did my father; and I am persuaded, that I tooshall die in the same manner; this bag which I carry with mewhen I hunt, 1 call my grave-clothes, for I am s
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . es the pi ice thatproved fatal to him, and requests the performance of the Wt dutiesio his corpse. After this picture (says M. Saussure,) of the lifeivhich the chamois hunters lead, could one imagine that ths chasewould be the object of a passion absolutely unsurmount&ble ? Iknew a well-made, handsome man, who had just married a beau-tiful woman:—My grand-father, said he to me, lost his lifein the chase; so did my father; and I am persuaded, that I tooshall die in the same manner; this bag which I carry with mewhen I hunt, 1 call my grave-clothes, for I am sure I will have noother; yet if you should offer to make my fortune on condition ofabandoning the chase of the chamois, I could not consent. I madesome excursions on the Alps with this man; his strength andaddress were astonishing; but his temerity was greater than hisstrength; and I have heard, that two years afterwards, he misseda step on the brink of a precipice, and met with the fate he hadexpected. so HUNTING CHAPTER X. HUNTING THE FOX. OX-HUNTING is so common and has stlong prevailed in England, that the termfox-hunting squire was supposed tobe sufficiently accurate for describing an^ English country gentleman until a recentperiod. It was the universal passion ofthe English rural gentry of the lastcentury; and it is still regarded amonga certain class as by far the most delight-ful and exciting of all the sports of the field. Our old friend already quoted treats the art and mystery of FoiHunting with his accustomed gravity and earnestness. Hunting the fox, he says, makes a very pleasant exercise, and18 either above or below ground. Hunting the fox above ground. To hunt a fox with hounds,you must draw about groves, thickets, and bushes near viliag-esWhen you find one, stop up his earth the night before you designto hunt, about midnicht; while he is out to prey. This ma\ 1*
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