2i8 MEMOIR OF 



There is a story told of a fine old-fashioned 

 Devonshire squire, a friend of Russell's, long 

 since passed away, that having a fancy for 

 hounds' names terminating with " maid," he 

 gave orders to his huntsman to call the first 

 three bitches that came up from walk as 

 follows: — "Barmaid," "Dairymaid," and "Gany- 

 maid." 



Nor is that a solitary instance of the confusion 

 created by the sex of Jove's cupbearer ; for 

 Russell relates that Dr. Troyte, of Huntsham, 

 having received a dog-hound, so called, from 

 Mr. Newton Fellowes, old Will Dinnicombe, 

 his huntsman, refused point-blank to call the 

 hound by that name ; declaring to his master 

 that "nobody, as he knowed, but Squire Fellowes 

 wi'd a ca'd a dog-hound Ganymaid ; and ef yeu 

 plaise, maister, us'll call un Ganyboy ; 'tis more 

 fitly like." Will had his way, and from that 

 day the hound went by the latter name. 



Hounds, as we all know, are governed by 

 their likes and dislikes, their fancies and preju- 

 dices, very much in the fashion of human 

 beings ; but with this difference — the honest 

 brutes do not disguise their feelings, as the 

 animals gifted with reason are too apt to do. 

 Sir John Eardley-Wilmot in his very interesting 

 " Reminiscences of the late Mr. Assheton Smith," 

 represents that eminent sportsman as having 

 possessed a "fascination" over hounds; while 



