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THE LADY OR THE SALMON? 



HE circum- 



stances which 

 attended and 

 caused the 

 death of the 

 Hon. Hough- 

 ton Grannom 

 have not long 

 been known 

 to me, and it is 



only now that, by the decease of his father, Lord 

 Whitchurch, and the extinction of his noble family, 

 I am permitted to divulge the facts. That the true 

 tale of my unhappy friend will touch different chords 

 in different breasts, I am well aware. The sports- 

 man, I think, will hesitate to approve him ; the 



