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The reliquary, or 'chasse, is a wooden coffer or shrine about four feet in length, its style and form those of a rich Gothic church, its purpose to hold an arm of the saint.
The men appeared about five; some of them came into the salon notwithstanding their muddy boots, and then came the livre de chasse and the recapitulation of the game, which is always most amusing. Everyman counted more pieces than his beater had found. The dinner and evening were pleasant, the guests changing a little.
Then followed the next logical step, namely, the attempt to imitate externals. Such pieces as Jannequin's "Chant des Oiseaux" and Gombert's "Chasse du Liévre" are examples of what was achieved in this direction. Finally, Palestrina demonstrated the scope of polyphonic music in the expression of religious emotions at times bordering upon the dramatic in their poignancy.
"And here is the barrier," he said, pointing to a board with "Terrain réservé" upon it Réserveé pour la chasse de Monsieur le Président, "The barrier which Love keeps and I want to take him with us as the prince and princess did in the fairy tale." "Then you must carry him all by yourself," laughed Theodora. "And he will be heavy and tire you, long before we get to Versailles."
And their most desirable characteristic is the ease with which they are attained. Any bullet or any button does the work. Faith alone is necessary. And now these ladies had made themselves happy and glorious with "Relics" of General Chasse cut from the ill-used habiliments of an elderly English gentleman! They departed at last, and Mr.
"But how about your objectives?" I asked. "At night you can never be sure of hitting them, and, well, you know what happens in French towns." "It is why I asked for my transfer to chasse," he told me afterward. "But the Germans, the blond beasts! Do they care? Nancy, Belfort, Châlons, Epernay, Rheims, Soissons, Paris, all our beautiful towns! I am a fool! We must pay them back, the Huns!
Not till evening did the tide serve, enabling us to send our papers for visa on board the guard-ship "L'Oise," where a party of young Frenchmen were preparing for la chasse. A little higher up stream are two islets, Nenge Mbwendi, so called from its owner, and Nenge Sika, or the Isle of Gold. It may have been introduced by the Laptots or Lascar sailors of the Senegal.
"This embroidered knife sheath is large enough for a hunting knife," said Lady Mary, "a 'couteau de chasse, is it not?" "This sheath was worked by the wife of Isaac Iron, an educated chief of the Mud Lake Indians, she gave it to me because I had been kind to her in sickness."
It is all soft grass and splendid trees, and may have been a rendezvous de chasse in the good old days, when life for the great was fair in France. It is very lonely now, and if you want to spend some hours in peace you can almost count upon solitude there. "Now, is not this beautiful?" he asked her, as they neared the centre, "and soon you will see why I carry this rug over my arm.
The rendezvous was at the Carrefour l'Etoile, and when we arrived the hunters and equipage, with the piqueurs and the chasseurs from the neighborhood, who belonged to the Imperial Hunt, were already there. The Imperial equipage de chasse is composed of ten piqueurs, valets de chien, valets a pieds, valets a cheval, and valets de limiers, and one hundred English hounds.
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