Here, above ground, in the blessed free
expanse of earth and sky, we beheld the heavens ablaze with all the
intensest glory of a magnificent sunset. One's soul in deep gladness
drank in the ineffable loveliness of nature, as if athirst for the
beauty of light and life.
[Footnote 23: Journal of Agricultural Society, vol. x. Part xi. No.
xx.]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Tokay district--Visit at Schloss G------Wild-boar
hunting--Incidents of the chase.
My first expedition to the Tokay district was in the winter; I was then
the guest of Baron V----, who has a charming chateau, surrounded by an
English garden, in this celebrated place of vineyards.
In the winter there is a very fair amount of good sport in this part of
Hungary. Sometimes one is enabled to go out hare-shooting in sledges; of
course the horses' bells are removed on these occasions. Hares are not
preserved in the Tokay district, but they are pretty numerous. I myself
shot fifty-four in the space of a few weeks, which is nothing compared
to an English battue of a single day; but then this is sport, and there
is immense pleasure in dashing right across country behind a pair of
fleet horses, thinking yourself well repaid if you bag a couple or three
hares in the afternoon's scamper. For wolf and wild-boar hunting one
must penetrate into the forests which extend in the rear of the
southern slopes of this Tokay range of hills.
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