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DOG-NAMES. (10 th S. ii. 101.)

THE following dog-names do not appear in the last list nor in those at 7 th S. vi. 144 :

Armelin, or "the Milk-White Armeline." Will. Drummond.

Atossa. ' Poor Matthias.' Matthew Arnold.

Bounce. Pope's dog and Lord Colling- wood's dog.

Bumble. Dog of Charles Dickens, at whose death he was given to Sir Charles Russell and died at Swallowfield.

Brush. Miss Mitford's spaniel.

Beau. The dog of Miss Gunning. 'The Dog and the Water Lily.' Cowper.

Bawtie, Bagsche. ' Bagsche's Complaint.' Lyndsay.

Ball.' The Dancing Dog.' Dray ton.

Bobby. Greyfriars Bobby. Prof. Blackie's
 * Epitaph on Bobby.'

Cut-tail. Common name formerly for a dog. See Drayton.

Chloe. ' On Trust.' Drayton.

Dart.- 4 A Dog's Tragedy.' Wordsworth.

Doussiekie or Doussie. Geddes.

Donald. 'The Schoolmaster's Buchanan.

Fang.' The Miser's only Friend.' Crabbe.

Fop. Cowper.

Heck. 'The Bonny Heck/ William Hamilton.

Herod. Barry Cornwall's bloodhound.

Hodain. 'Sir Tristrem.' Thomas the Rhymer.

Harlequin. A little spotted dog, said to have been the strongest link in the chain of evidence against Dr. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, when, in 1823, he was deprived of his office.

Islet. 'Islet the Dachs.' George Mere- dith.

Kaiser.' Kaiser Dead.' Matthew Arnold.

Lanceman. 'Bagsche's Complaint.' Lynd- say.

Mayflower. Miss Mitford's white grey- hound.

Marietta Miss Mitford's blue greyhound. Max. 4 Poor Matthias/ Matthew Arnold. Manx. Miss Mitford's dog. Nina.-' A Talk of the Reign of Terror.' Catherine Bowles Sou they. Nick.-' Exemplary Nick.' Sydney Smith. Pompey.-" As mastiff dogs in modern hrase are called Pompey, Scipio, and Caesar."

' Sir Tristrem '' Th rnas the

Phillis. ' Canine Immortality.' Robert Southey.

Prince. ' A Dog's Tragedy.' Wordsworth.

Roa. * Old Roa.' Tennyson.

Rocket. 'Old Rocket.' H. Knight Horsfield.

Snowball. Celebrated greyhound, belonged to Major Topham, was in his prime in 1799, ancestor of many famous dogs.

Saladin. A yellow greyhound who accom- panied Miss Mitford in her walks.

Scipio. See above. Swift.

Swallow. 'A Dog's Tragedy.' Wordsworth.

Scudlar. 'Bagsche's Complaint.' Lyndsay.

Tiger. Mrs. Dingley's favourite lap-dog. Swift.

Whitefoot. 'Farewell to Whitefoot.' Drayton.

Tippoo. 'Shipwrecked Tippoo.' Lord Grenville. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Here and there in medieval songs and texts in prose the names of dogs occur, but the rarest of all records of this nature are those which appear on monuments. Of these, though nothing is more common than the portrait of a dog at the feet of a knight or a lady, only three examples of this kind are known to me. 1. Where at the feet of the brass of Sir Bryan Stapleton, ob. 1438, as represented by a rubbing now in the British Museum, a little dog appears together with a lion. A label gives the name of the former as "Jackke." This brass is given in an etching by Cotman, plate xxii. of the ' Sepulchral Brasses of Norfolk,' 1838, facing p. 19 of the text. Since Cotman's time the memorial itself has disappeared been " abstracted " as the indignant Boutell gave it. 2. At Deerhurst, in Gloucestershire, the name "Terri" is attached to the engraving of a dog on the tomb of Sir John Cassy, Chief Baron, and his wife, 1400. 3. At Clifton Reynes, Buckinghamshire, is the finely sculptured tomb of Sir John Reynes, as it is supposed, who died in 1428, and his wife. At the feet of the knight is " a well- sculptured dog with a collar bearing the name 'Bo' [Beau], in letters sculptured in high relief," vide Mr. W. Hastings Kelke's contributions to Archaeological Journal^ vol. xi. p. 154, 1854.

Apart from these more ancient designations, and besides "Raynali" (Reynold), whose death Prince Rupert lamented, vide p. 103 ante, that worthy had had, in his fighting days, another dog, whose name, " Boy," has come down to us in various tracts of the "Parliamentary persuasion," which denounce the dog and his master in very unparliamentary terms. H.R.H. had, it appears, likewise another pet