CHAPTER XI

M. Moquet de Brassoire--The ambuscade--Three hares charge me--What prevents me from being the king of the battue--Because I did not take the bull by the horns, I just escape being disembowelled by it--Sabine and her puppies

## BOOK V

## CHAPTER I The second period of my youth--Forest-keepers and sailors--Choron, Moinat, Mildet, Berthelin--La Maison-Neuve

## CHAPTER II Choron and the mad dog--Niquet, otherwise called _Bobino_--His mistress--The boar-hunt--The kill--Bobino's triumph--He is decorated--The boar which he had killed rises again

## CHAPTER III Boars and keepers--The bullet of Robin-des-Bois--The pork-butcher

## CHAPTER IV A wolf-hunt--Small towns--Choron's tragic death

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