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For this Roland and Sir John were also to change their guns for rifles and hunting knives , pointed as daggers and sharp as razors , which formed part of Sir John 's arsenal , and could be suspended from the belt or screwed on the point of the gun like bayonets . From the beginning of the battue it was easy to see that the hunt would be a good one . A roebuck and two hares were killed at once . At noon two does , seven roebucks and two foxes had been bagged . They had also seen two boars , but these latter had only shaken their bristles in answer to the heavy balls and made off . Edouard was in the seventh heaven ; he had killed a roebuck . The beaters , well rewarded for their labor , were sent to the château with the game , as had been arranged .