We have now introduced our new actors. The Thursday had come; and it was half-past eight in the morning when we filed out M. Deviolaine, my brother-in-law, myself, and a dozen keepers, gathered up from the town and recruited on our way at the turning of the forest road, about four hundred steps from Maison-Neuve.
Choron was, as usual, on his doorstep, horn in hand; directly he caught sight of us, he blew a most sonorous blast, and we knew there were no doubts about our hunt taking place.
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