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deed, one of them came to bear the name of Lord Eldon, 

 the Lord Chancellor. For, the story goes, "One of the 

 daughters of that distinguished lawyer, entering the keep, 

 one day, and not knowing what was there, caught sight of 

 the venerable bird sitting in state solemnly blinking its 

 eyes, and exclaimed, ' Dear me, how like papa ! ' " And the 

 name stuck. 



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