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puppy with due consideration, till the huntsman 

 called one day, and asked, in severely important 

 tones, '^ Do you give that puppy his exercise regu- 

 larly ?" and that ever after it became the subject of 

 the deepest respect and solicitude. The bump of 

 reverence is equally developed among the domestics 

 at Dalgig. 



None of the above three had received a name. There 

 were many deep searchings of heart, countless brown 

 studies, and endless dislocation and collocation of 

 syllables in connexion with the standard initial letter 

 C, in prospect, before Mr. Campbell would get that 

 point settled. We have a floating notion that we 

 found many learned exercises of this nature not 

 only on the fly-leaves of his books, but on stray enve- 

 lopes and the margin of old Ayrshire Advertisers. 

 In fact, his evenings are one series of strenuous phi- 

 lological wrestles. His coursing friends have often 

 a joke with him about his taste for nomenclature, 

 and one of them had the temerity to infringe the 

 patent, and call his dog " Dalgigaradzo.'^ Some 

 of them will have it that he keeps a lucky-bag of syl- 

 lables atDalgig, and draws them out at haphazard; but 

 luckily there is that telling title, *^Canaradzo,^^ to con- 

 fute such impious cavillers. One energetic and specu- 

 lative stranger at the Waterloo had rummaged every 

 dictionary and gazetteer that he could lay hands on, 

 and, failing in his search, reverently approached Mr. 

 Campbell on the ground, and, with a preface 

 to the effect that " it sounds well,'' begged to be 



