tio MEN OF PAST DAYS 



over. I hope you will not think I am officious in this matter ; and, if 

 there is anything else you wish to have done, please let me know, and 

 I will attend to it. 



' Yours faithfully, 



WILLIAM SMALLBODY. 



' To Montgomery Dilly, Esq., Littleton.' 



A cheque was duly forwarded, with a letter thanking 

 the mutual friend for his kind interference. It was duly 

 received and as duly acknowledged by * Mr. Smallbody.' 

 Mr. Montgomery Dilly, Mr. W. Dilly, and their two 

 sisters, all went into deep mourning for their dear de- 

 parted brother. To the great surprise of the first-named 

 gentleman, on his visiting Newmarket a few weeks after, 

 who should he come upon but his brother John, still in 

 the flesh, alive and hearty ! Naturally, the one brother 

 upbraided the other for his heartless deceit. To this 

 poor John replied : 



1 Ah, 'Gomery, I knew you would not send me any- 

 thing to keep me alive ; but I thought you might to see 

 me safely underground.' 



Curious as this story may seem, there is not the 

 slightest doubt of its truth, or that the circumstances 

 were very much as I have related them. 



Writing of Mr. Eamsay, I am reminded of the acute- 

 ness and services of a dog that he owned, and had taught 

 to do many strange things. It was a plain-looking 

 sort of half-bred Newfoundland ; and one day, whilst 

 standing near the Lamb Inn, at Abingdon, Mr. Bamsay 

 said to me : 



' Do you see that dog on the other side of the road ?' 



and, on my answering in the affirmative, continued : ' He 



is watching and following that tramp there a few yards 



efore him ' which he evidently was doing. ' He will 



never leave him till he sees him safe out of the town ; 



