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usual entry of puppies from Berkeley Castle. 

 This puppy had been knocked over while at 

 walk by a decidedly hydrophobic mad dog, Ijut. 

 not an abrasion on the skin nor the mark of a 

 tootli could be discovered throughout the neck, 

 head, body, or limbs of the puppy in question. 

 However, Colonel Berkeley, afterwards Lord 

 Segrave, who used always to send me my entry 

 of young hounds, noticed the fact to me as a 

 Avarning, leaving it to me to destroy the splendid 

 young hound, or to risk his retention. This 

 P^PPy ^^^^ ^^^ active and fast, that the '^ entry" of 

 his young fellows always selected him to be their 

 object of racing pursuit, for, cut off corners as 

 they might, in ^'greenyard" or field, they had 

 the utmost difficulty in catching him. I have 

 observed that young hounds always do this, and 

 that they never select a playmate for this especial 

 purpose unless his speed and activity surpasses 

 that of all others. 



After feeding my entry, it was my custom, in 

 a long frock or kennel di^ess, to seat myself on a 

 stone in the middle of tlie greenyard, to watch 

 the gambols of the hoped-to-be companions of 

 many a leisure hour, and to observe those in 



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