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occasion some twenty couples had been drafted 

 for foreign service, and it is a fact that the 

 gentleman who became their master, and 

 hunted them himself for the whole season, knew 

 the name of but one of them — a hound called 

 ''Primrose" — at the end of it, her colour being 

 different from that of the other hounds. Neither 

 did he trouble his head to inquire the history 

 of a single hound. 



"Tvrell told me," wTote Mr. Russell to an 

 old friend, " that he gave him (the aforesaid 

 gentleman) a setter and a pointer in the month 

 of August, and that he could not, in the following 

 Christmas week, tell him the names of either, 

 nor which was the pointer and which the 

 setter, though he had shot over them for four 

 months." 



Again, among the lot he took was a hound 

 called "Abelard," to whose classical name in 

 connection with the ill-fated " Eloise " — that 

 most exquisite poem — his reading had never 

 soared. Never, too, having noticed the name 

 in any list of hounds, he w^as sorely perplexed, 

 and came to the conclusion that some mistake 

 must have occurred, and that the hound's real 

 name was " Happy-Lord." " 'Tis a merry little 

 hound, you know, and that's why, I suppose, 

 Russell gave him that queer name," he said, as 

 he drew the hound with the point of his whip, 

 and distinctly called him " Happy-Lord." 



