Oct 7, 2008
Alexandre Dumas describes an incident from when he was a young man. He accompanied Mocquet, his father’s former gamekeeper, on a hunt after a wolf, along with some of the most expert hunters in the region. Each member of the party shoots at the wolf, but their bullets all miss, except for Dumas’, which passes through the wolf without wounding it. Mocquet explains that Dumas’ bullet hit the wolf because he had a scratched a cross on it but could not kill the wolf because it was not made of silver.
Mocquet then relates the story of a shoemaker named Thibault...
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