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and sipped in the most ladylike way, and Hunt, 

 the keeper, put a very smart cap on her head, 

 which made it all the more laughable. Hunt 

 told me that, a few days ago, the Queen and 

 Prince Albert were highly amused with Jenny's 

 tricks, but that he did not like to put the cap 

 on Jenny, as he was afraid it might be thought 

 vulgar ! ' 



In June, Owen went with his wife and child to 

 spend a few weeks with his sisters at Lancaster. 

 After visiting his old haunts, he returned alone to 

 London for about a fortnight, going from thence 

 to visit his friend Sir P. Egerton at Oulton 

 Park, Tarporley. On July 17, Owen writes to 

 Mr. Clift, giving a description of his occupations 

 there : — 



' On Wednesday last,' he says, * Sir Philip had 

 a grand battue of carp and eels, and in simula- 

 tion perhaps of the Emperor of the Russias — 

 Count Keyserling being his guest — tapped a 

 small lake. Lord Enniskiilen and I amused 

 ourselves by wading up to our middles — he 

 having thereby an advantage — in the mud in 

 chase of great carp and pike and eels. The 

 carp shuffled across the mud like " dolphins 

 embowed," as the Heralds say ; the pike were 

 more easily caught, care being had of their teeth, 

 but the eels were slippery dogs. After landing 

 the best fish in tubs of water prepared for their 

 transport to stews and ponds, and stranding some 



