He is known to live on land belonging to M.Bompard...

which, by the way, has doubled or even tripled its value.
No one has yet been able to catch him, and at the present time there are not more than two or three fanatics who go after him.

The rest have given up and Speedy has become something of a protected species, though the Tarasconais are not very conservation minded and would make a stew of the rarest of creatures, if they managed to shoot one.
Now, you may say, "Since game is in such short supply, what do these Tarasconais sportsmen do every Sunday ?" What do they do?
Eh! Mon Dieu! They go out into the country, several miles from the town.

They assemble in little groups of five or six.

They settle down comfortably in some shady spot.