They change every year, and each new superintendent cuts a way out through the woods according to his fancy.
The devil himself could not find his way." "Yet you have been to Vivey before ?" "Oh, yes; five or six years ago; I used often to take parties of hunters to the chateau.

Ah! Monsieur, what a beautiful country it is for hunting; you can not take twenty steps along a trench without seeing a stag or a deer." "You have doubtless had the opportunity of meeting Monsieur Odouart de Buxieres ?" "Yes, indeed, Monsieur, more than once-ah! he is a jolly fellow and a fine man--" "He was," interrupted Julien, gravely, "for he is dead." "Ah! excuse me--I did not know it.

What! is he really dead?
So fine a man! What we must all come to.

Careful, now!" added he, pulling in the reins, "we are leaving the highroad, and must keep our eyes open." The twilight was already deepening, the driver lighted his lantern, and the vehicle turned into a narrow lane, half mud, half stone, and hedged in on both sides with wet brushwood, which flapped noisily against the leathern hood.

After fifteen minutes' riding, the paths opened upon a pasture, dotted here and there with juniper bushes, and thence divided into three lines, along which ran the deep track of wagons, cutting the pasturage into small hillocks.