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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VI. 
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 Enniskillen 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 
