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Updated: May 8, 2025
The morning has scarcely dawned and the party is on the road home, when a crowd of peasants arrive with their dogs, who, following the bloody traces of the wolves in the snow, dispatch those which, though wounded, have been able to leave the spot for the sight of a dead wolf is to a Morvinian as delightful as the possession of one is profitable.
These two charming little defects excepted, you have in the Morvinian curé goodness double distilled, and the essence of generosity, and, be it said, abnegation.
The Esquimaux, that distant and half-frozen people, have their own peculiar way of trapping wolves; and it is somewhat singular that their ice wolf-trap, as described by Captain Lyon, resembles exactly, except in the material of which it is made, that of France, though it is very certain no Morvinian ever went so far as the Melville peninsula to take a hunting lesson from an Esquimaux.
"Who is that gentleman, sir?" said a Morvinian of the plain to me one day, pointing to a tall thin man, with a bald head, and a pair of gold spectacles on his nose, a notability of the legislative assembly who was going to step into the village tribune. "That gentleman?" I replied; "he is an orator." "Ah! an orator: and pray what sort of a bird is that? what is he going to chirrup about?"
In these, his fallen moments, and after a good day's sport, a Morvinian would tell you he could drink all the Burgundian cellars dry, aye, and those of Champagne too; and as to smoking, why, he would smoke a whole crop of tobacco.
Half dead upon the spot where he was phlebotomized, the wretched animal was left to reflect under the shade of a tulip-tree on the cruelty of man, on their barbarous appetites; cursing with all his heart the poverty of Morvinian curates, their conceited hospitality, of which he was the victim, and their brutal affection for pig's blood.
Pierre Pertuis on the Cure, is also a famous place for fishing, and an extraordinary spot, and the Morvinian peasant, a highly poetically-flavoured individual, has made it the theatre of some very fantastic scenes.
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