Summer months in the Forest--_Mare_ No. 3.--Description of it--The Woodcock fly--The Banker has a day's sport--Arrives at the _Mare_--Difficult to please in his choice of a hut--Proceeds to a larger _Mare_--His friends retire--The Banker on the alert for a Wolf or a Boar--Fires at some animal--The unfortunate discovery--Rage of the Parisian--Pays for his blunder, and recovers his temper 188 CHAPTER XVI. The _Curé_ of the Mountain--Toby Gold Button--Hospitality--The _Curé's_ pig--His hard fate and reflections--The _Curé_ of the plain--His worth and influence--The agent of the Government--Landed Proprietors--Their influence--The Orator--Dialogue with a Peasant 207 CHAPTER XVII. The wolf--His aspect and extreme ferocity--His cunning in hunting his prey--His unsocial nature--Antiquity of the race--Where found, and their varieties--Annihilated in England by the perseverance of the kings and people--Decrees and rewards to encourage their destruction by Athelstane, John, and Edward I.--Death of the last wolf in England--Death of the last in Ireland 221 CHAPTER XVIII. The _battues_ of May and December--The gathering of sportsmen--Preparations in the forest--The _charivari_--The fatal rush--Excitement of the moment--The volley--The day's triumph, and the reward--The peasants returning--Hunting the wolf with dogs--Cub-hunting--The drunken wolf 236 CHAPTER XIX. 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 248 CHAPTER XX. Shooting wolves in the summer--The most approved baits to attract them--Fatal error--Hut-shooting--Silent joviality--The approach of the wolves--The first volley--The retreat--The final slaughter--The sportsman's reward--The farm-yard near St. Hibaut--The dead colt--The onset--Scene in the morning--Horrible accident--The gallant farmer--Death of the wolves, the dogs, and the peasant--The wolf-skin drum--Anathema of the naturalists 261 CHAPTER XXI. Fishing in Le Morvan--The naturalist--The _Gour_ of Akin--The English lady--The mountain streams--Château de Chatelux--Sermiselle--New mode of killing pike--Pierre Pertuis--The rocks and whirlpool there--The syrens of the grotto--Château des Panolas--The Cousin--The ponds of Marot and lakes of Lomervo--Mode of taking fish with live trimmers--The Scotch farmer 280 CHAPTER XXII.