SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS DOGS. 



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dogs would all be on the alert to join them. There was 

 first a tall old staghound named Maida, that considered 

 himself the confidential friend of his master, walked by 

 his side, and looked into his eyes as if asserting a part- 

 nership in his thoughts. Then there was a black grey- 

 hound named Hamlet, a more frisky and thoughtless youth, 

 that gambolled and pranced and barked and cut capers 

 with the wildest glee ; and there was a beautiful setter 



