42 HOUND AND HORN ; 



we kept her at home, and some very nice whelps she 

 had : but there you see, sir, they are sensible animals. 

 Well, sir, you say your hound is a bit of a thief : I hope 

 he may do for you what one did for me once, when I 

 w^as with Mr. Grantley Berkeley. I remember a hound 

 we walked at home called Hudibras, and a very fine 

 hound he were, and Mr. Berkeley kept him several 

 seasons. Well, sir, my little girl, as she was then, my 



daughter, I mean, as is married now, and lives at , 



you know her well, for she comes up to stay with me 

 sometimes, and is mightily come of it now, for she ain't 

 very small ; well, she comes running in, and says, 

 ' Father, there is Hudibras making^ a grreat hole in 

 the onion bed : ' well, sir, I thouo'ht the hound were 

 burying a bone, as they will do, so out I went, and 

 there I seed him w^orking away and covering the place 

 up with his nose : so I sung out, ' Hudibras, wdiat are 

 ye about there ? ' and as I came towards him, I saw 

 somethincj stickino- out of the ground, as I thous^ht w^as 

 a bit o' bacon ; so I went up and raked away the 

 mould, and there were a large bit o' beautiful bacon 

 just as it might have been cut off, and I took it in and 

 showed it to my wife, and she knowed nothing about it. 

 Well, sir, I didn't say anything, but I piit it into the 

 scales, and it weighed twelve pounds, and I kept it for 

 a time, and I never heard as any one had lost any, and 



