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in vol. 123, was a famous red bitch greyhound 

 bred by Mr. Webb in 1849 ; of the one and thirty 

 courses in which she was sHpped in pubHc she 

 won no fewer than twenty-si.x. Hotspur and 

 Languish were a couple of harriers from Sir 

 Humphrey de Trafford's pack. 



Among his subject pictures may be mentioned 

 "The Lobby of the House of Commons in 1S72," 

 "The London Season" and, more within our 

 scope, " Lord's Cricket Ground." His portrait of 

 Uxbridge, one of Her Majesty's saddle horses, 

 is in the possession of Mr. F. P. Barraud. 



By far the best known of his works was the 

 picture of three choristers entitled, " We praise 

 Thee, O God ! " engravings from which have been 

 sold, it is no exaggeration to say, in hundreds of 

 thousands. Few pictures of the devotional class 

 to which this belongs have ever achieved the 

 immense popularity of this unpretentious work by 

 Henry Barraud. It may be added that the 

 legend concerning the fate of the youths whose 

 portraits appear in the picture was floated in a 

 spirit of cynical jest and has no foundation in fact 

 whatever. One of the boys was not hanged, nor 

 were the other two sentenced to penal servitude 

 for life ; the three were Henry Barraud's eldest 

 son, his nephew, a son of William, and a friend of 

 theirs ; all became respectable members of society. 



