NOTE 



FOR leave to print the following poems and prose 



I have to thank Miss Armstrong for her Carrier 



Dog of Berlin ; Professor Butcher and Mr. Andrew 



Lang for the lines on Argos from their translation 



of the Odyssey j the Rev. Alfred J. Church for his 



translation of an Epitaph on a Dog; Professor J. 



Courthope for his A Blenheim's Valentine j Mr. 



Thomas Hardy for an extract from Far from the 



Madding Crowds die Rev. Frederick Langbridge 



for Mike Hourigaiis Pap; Mr. Robert C. 



Lehmann for A Retriever's Epitaph, and Rufus ; 



Mr. Alfred Olivant for two extracts from Owd 



Bob ; Mr. Louis Robinson for an extract from his 



Wild Traits in Tame Animals ; Sir George 



Trevelyan for two quotations taken from his life 



of Lord Macaulay ; Mr. William Watson for leave 



to print An Epitaph, and the first half of a cat 



and dog poem entitled A Contrast; and Mr. 



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