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' Rosie,' for all your kindness to me ; but I am very- 

 grateful, as I ought to be, for it, and wish I could 

 return it in kind at once. But a few more months 

 and we shall be in the heart of the stag-hunting 

 season, when you have promised to bring them both 

 to my little Alpine cottage, and when Mary and I 

 will try to take care of you all. 



" She, the said Mary, desires me to return you 

 her very best thanks for your most liberal, kind and 

 handsome present, which, she says, will ' last her her 

 life '. I will give you some sort of an account of our 

 sport at Ivybridge as soon as I can. 



" With best and kindest love to you all, 

 " I am, my dear Jack, 



" Ever yours affectionately, 



"J. Russell." 



"TORDOWN, 



" Tuesday, 8th April, 1879. 



" My Dear Jack, — 



" I will send off the two terrier puppies by 

 train to Charleton to-morrow morning, and ' hope 

 they will arrive fresh '. Take your choice of them, 

 and send on the other to Pat Carnegy with my 

 best wishes to the missus and himself We hadn't 

 much sporl last week at Ivybridge, but the meeting 

 and the dinner were both a great success. I was 

 staying at Delamore, where you were often toasted. 

 Please put a few potatoes into the hamper and send 

 it back — not that I want the hamper, but I do the 

 potatoes. 



