Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-30
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FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 80, 1878.
Hunting In Hungary.

The author of work on travels in Hungary
thus describes hunting expedition 10 forest
in the Tokoy District 1--WE were only ten
guns and wero soon posted, each man IN his
propor posi,iop, waiting for the sohwalzWlld, fs
the Germans say; but, alas nothing appeared
till the heaters themselves came 10 sight. %
va had to organize battus number two. Inc
heaters walk quietly forward, tapping tho trees
now and theu. This is quite noise enough ioT
the purpose ofrousing the game; it they Shouted
or made too much row, the game Woult get
wild and scared.
Minutes at nv post when heard from behind
the breaking of dead branches, as of some anil
NAL advancing slowly. 1t was line buck which
made his appearance, but no scented mo and
made off. Again, about hundred yards OF. |
csupht glimpse of him between tho trees. l
fired with effect. We found him aiterward,
nbout two hundred yards farther on, where he
had fallen 1t was very provoking: up to lunch
time VIC sighted no wild boar, though we saw
by the snow that they must have been about
the hillside during the night. We had soon
good fire blazing, ut which robber steak was
nicely cooked | never enjoyed anything more.
We washed down OUT repast with good loksy'
'Atter luncheon VIC commenced work again.
By this tmo We had advanced into the very
heart of the forest. The smooth boles of the
tsll beech trees looked grand in their winter
nakedncss, rising like columns from the white
frost bespangled ground. l took up my stand,
gun in readiness, waiting Tor the tramp. Tho
snort, or the grizzly dark form Of The wild boar;
but nothing came to disturb the uttor solitude
of the scene.
'Rut bark! hear shots repeatedly in the
lower valley /. too, begin to look out With
uaickencd pulse, peellng lnto the misty depths
vi the forest aud with car alert for every
suund; but all to no purpose. Nothing comes
MY way, though again l hear two more shots
echo SHARPLY ii the narrow valley, nearer to
ME than before. After the lapse OF o few
minutes the heaters came up, breaking through
the dead branches Of under cover.
81 knew now that my own chance was gone;
but was cuicus TO know what had happened,
and ioining two of my friends who's, stand
had been near mine. we hurried down the val.
Icy to see what sport had turned up for tho
other guns. Ga irauiry it appeared that at
leaet seventy wild boars had passed CLOSE to
one of our party: but the sight of so many at
ouce had made his aim unsteady, and no only
succeeded in wCuDding one OF the number.-
The animal had dashed into tho half frozen
stream at The bottom Of tho valley. AID our
friend had to reload and give him his final
shot there.
"Wo formed one more battue, but nothing
came of it, and it was alrcady high timo to re-
turn to our quarters, for the whole sccne was
growing dim in the winry twilight. Some OF
tho party, myself included, went by arrange.
ment to too house of one Of the torestera. Tho
good people, 10 their desire to be hosptablo.
gave US . warm reception. They had heated
tho rooms to such an extent that We were al'
most baked alive.
THE next morning We resumed our sport.
During the first battus eight wild bears were
sighted. One was shot instantly; tho others
broke through tho liuo Of bcators, but in doing
40 very unusual thing happened. for ono OF
the foresters succeeded in killing boar by y
tremendous blow from an AKA. Wo wcro very
much surprised that the animal had como
near enough. for, IS rule, they will not sp.
proach human beings except when wounded,
and then they are most formidable assallans.
l regret to say that one OF our dogs was ripped
up by ono # this herd of eight