You can not imagine what pleasure there is in coursing through the woods, and suddenly, at a sharp turn, catching sight of a deer in the distance, then galloping to the spot where he must pass, and holding him with the end of your gun! You have no idea what an appetite one gets with such exercise, nor how jolly it is to breakfast afterward, all together, seated round some favorite old beech-tree.

Enjoy your youth while you have it.

Time enough to stay in your chimney-corner and spit in the ashes when rheumatism has got hold of you.

Perhaps you will say you never have followed the hounds, and do not know how to handle a gun ?" "That is the exact truth." "Possibly, but appetite comes with eating, and when once you have tasted of the pleasures of the chase, you will want to imitate your companions.
Now, see here: we have organized a party at Charbonniere to-morrow, for the gentlemen of Auberive; there will be some people you know--Destourbet, justice of the Peace, the clerk Seurrot, Maitre Arbillot and the tax-collector, Boucheseiche.

Hutinet went over the ground yesterday, and has appointed the meeting for ten o'clock at the Belle-Etoile.