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The coachman, however, kept the horses straight, and, quieting them down, again brought them to a standstill, when the cloths were taken off their heads, and the journey to the chateau completed at a steady pace. "That's sharp work," Jack said, when the wolves had been fairly left in the rear. "They call that wolf-hunting. I call it being hunted by wolves.
I was rather ashamed to find how much better his eyes were than mine in seeing the birds and grasping their differences. When wolf-hunting in Texas, and when bear-hunting in Louisiana and Mississippi, I was not only enthralled by the sport, but also by the strange new birds and other creatures, and the trees and flowers I had not known before.
He took with him also for companionship, since this time he was not wolf-hunting, a neighbor's dog that was forever after him a useless, yellow lump of mongrel dog-flesh, but friendly and silent.
The very birds of prey, those flying thieves of the air, are used for wolf-hunting amongst some of the savage nations of the earth.
"I don't call this wolf-hunting," replied Joey; "I think the wolves are hunting us." "It's all the same, my little poacher it's a hunt, at all events. They are gaining on us fast; we shall soon come to an explanation."
Wolf-hunting in the forests is an expensive amusement, whether they are killed by the method I have described, namely, of employing beaters, and shooting them when breaking through the line of sportsmen, or running them down with dogs.
The rest of the servants lived in the village with the land-steward. The only time at which the desolated and deserted castle became the scene of life and activity was late in autumn, when the snow first began to fall and the season for wolf-hunting and boar-hunting arrived. Then came Freiherr Roderick with his wife, attended by relatives and friends and a numerous retinue, from Courland.
He had a superb outfit for wolf-hunting the best of guns and horses, and a pack of enormous wolf-hounds. Far out on the plains of the Panhandle, he and his dogs had killed many a wolf, and now he never doubted that, within a few days, old Lobo's scalp would dangle at his saddle-bow.
Wolf-hunting with traps has its dangers and its inconveniences, and the Traquenard must be used with great caution. Every morning it should be visited and shut; otherwise a man, a horse, a dog, or some other animal, may fall into it, and be taken.
Wolf-hunting, an expensive amusement The Traquenard Mode of setting this trap A night in the forest with Navarre The young lover Dreadful accident that befell him His courage and efforts to escape The fatal catastrophe The poor mad mother.
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