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Only the Seneschal in grief cries that they have missed him. The

sportsmen and the beaters had all gone to the same side, between

the toils and the forest, to cut off the beast; but the bear,

frightened by the throng of dogs and men, turned back into places

less carefully guarded, towards the fields, whence the sportsmen

set to guard them had departed, where of the many ranks of

hunters there remained only the Seneschal, Thaddeus, the Count,

and a few beaters.