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Le Morvan--Forests--Climate--Patriarchs and Damosels--Peasants of the plain and the mountains--Jovial Cur?s--Their love of Burgundy--The Doctor and the Cur? 14
Geology--Fossil shells--Antediluvian salmon--The Druids--Chindonax, the High Priest--Roman antiquities--Julius Caesar's hunting-box--Lugubrious village--Carr?-les-Tombes--The Inquisitive Andalusian 26
Le Morvan during the Middle Ages--Legendary horrors--Forest of La Goulotte--La Croix Chavannes--La Croix Mordienne--H?tel de Chanty--Ch?teau de Lomervo--A French Bluebeard--Citadel of Lingou 35
Bird's-eye view of the forests--The student's visit to his uncle in the country--Sallies forth in the early morning--Meets a cuckoo--Follows him--The cuckoo too much for him--Gives up the pursuit--Finds he has lost his way--Agreeable vespers--Night in the forest--Wolves--Up a beech tree--A friend in need--The student bids adieu to Le Morvan 55
Charms of a forest life to the sportsman--The Poachers--Le P?re S?guin--His knowledge of the woods and of the rivers--The first buck--A bad shot 65
Le P?re S?guin's collation--The young sportsman and the hare--The quarrel--The apology--The reconciliation--The cemetery--Bait for barbel--Le P?re S?guin's deceased friends--The return home 75
The woodcock--Its habits in the forests of Le Morvan--Aversion of dogs to this bird--Timidity of the woodcock--Its cunning--Shooting in November--The Woodcock mates--The Woodcock fly 100
Fine names--Gustavus Adolphus and the cabbages--Gustavus Adolphus no hero!--The Parisian Sportsman--Partridge shooting despicable--Wild boar-hunting--Rousing the grisly monster--His approach--The post of honour--Good nerves--The death--The trophy and congratulations 117
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
LE MORVAN.
Every nation has its characteristics, and amongst those which are peculiar to the genius of the English people, is their ardent and insatiable love of wandering.
To locomote is absolutely necessary to every Englishman; in his heart is profoundly rooted a passion for long journeys; each and all of them, old and young, healthy and sickly, would if they could take not merely the grand tour, but circulate round the two hemispheres with all the pleasure imaginable. At a certain period of the year, when the weathercock points the right way, the sun burns in the sign of the Lion, and the husbandman bends his weary form to gather in the golden corn, the legs of the rich Englishman begin to be nervously agitated, he feels a sense of suffocation, and pants for change--of air, of place, of everything; he girds up his loins, and without throwing a glance behind him, it is Hey, Presto! begone! and he is off. Where?
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