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For at least forty-eight hours previously, a vast corps of "treibers," or Styrian mountaineers engaged for the purpose have been employed in surrounding a district of mountain and valley many miles in area. The circle is gradually narrowed down until the whole of the game is driven from the heights into the valley, where the emperor and his guests have taken up their positions.
"They have to drive the boar with the wind," he whispered. "I thought they did it with sticks," I answered in a low tone. To this remark he did not pay the slightest attention. Between a sneeze and a cough we were rapidly catching our deaths he said, under his breath, "If they smell us they go away." The treibers work in couples, Count Westphal leading them.
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