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Sondes to say he liked the hounds, but one of them, 

 ' Anthony,' was missing and could not be found, and 

 that if he had got back into Northamptonshire, he 

 were worth all the lot init together. Well, sir, I 

 supposed Anthony had strayed in a strange jDlace, and 

 never thought to see him again, till one night just 

 before we were going to bed I beard a hound baying 

 outside by the kennel, and on going to the door I 

 heard him plain and I thought I knowed the note, and 

 so I sung out 'Anthony, Anthony.' Well, sir, in a 

 moment, as sure as I sit here to talk to yoa, I found 

 a hound's nose against my hand, for 'twas too dark to 

 see, and I let him in, and sure enough there was 

 Anthony, very poor, but I knowed him ; and after a 

 time I got him round by little and little, and I sent 

 him back again to Lord Sondes, at Lees Court in Kent, 

 and I never know'd but what he did very well." 



" Why, old friend, I know Lees Court well ; but that 

 hound must have found his way through London, 

 unless he swam the Thames, and that's not at all 

 likely." 



" W ell, sir, they are sensible animals. How the 

 hound got back I never knew, but he did get 

 back to Whittlebury, and I sent him to Lord Sondes 

 as^ain." 



"Well, sir, I think I told you about a bitch we 



