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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. DEC. 10, im.

I beg leave to add Montinorency in ' Three Men in a Boat,' by Jerome.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

Froissart tells us, in one of his pastorals, that he carried with him as a present to Gaston, Count de Foix, in the year 1388, four

Srey hounds whose names were Tristan, Hector, run, and Rollant, according to a foot-note by M. de St. Pelaye, at p. xxi of the preface to Froissart's * Chronicles.' JAMES WATSON.

In this list the name of Teufel the Terrier should find an honoured place. He is immortalized in the pictures of the late Mr. J. Yates Carrington, who also wrote and published an account of his life and adven- tures. Teufel died in his master's arms, and Mr. Carrington adorned his tomb with flowers and an epitaph.

Many dog - names might be found by searching the works of the late Major Whyte Melville. Looking casually through his 'Songs and Verses,' I find the following :

Bachelor and Benedict, vide ' The King of the Kennel.'

Chorister and Fanciful, vide 'Tally-Ho ! '

Finisher, Foreman, and Nelson, vide * Brow, Bay, and Tray.'

Friendly, Viceroy, and Ranger, vide * A Lay of the Ranston Bloodhounds.'

In that delightful book < The Friend of Man, and his Friends the Poets,' by the late Miss Frances Power Cobbe, numerous dog- names will also be found recorded.

JOHN T. PAGE.

In the volume devoted to 'Hunting' in the Badminton Library (new impression, 1901), Appendix B, will be found a list of upwards of 1,000 names of hounds (dogs and bitches), ranging from Acheron to Zosimus and from Abigal to Zillah. WM. H. PEET.

Huz and Buz are mentioned in 'Verdant Green.' Spot is immortalized by Sheridan :

" Out, d d Spot." Of the death of a dog

of an older generation we read : I had rather by half It had been Sir Ralf.

Punch's Toby is, of course, a reference to Tobias. W. J. L.

My Shetland collie answers to the name of Tiler. Masonic readers will recognize its appropriateness.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Older names than any of those yet given are Akkulu, "Devourer" : Iksuda, " Taker" ; Iltebu, "Pursuer"; and 'Ukkumu, "Seizer," the names of the four divine hounds belong- ing to Marduk, the Babylonian sun - god (bayce, * Religion of the Ancient Babylonians,'

p. 288). With these we may compare Atsu- su-namir (" His rising is seen "), the dog of the Dawn (G. Smith, * Chaldean Account of Genesis,' ed. Sayce, p. 250).

The Abbott papyrus (ab. 2900 B.C.) men- tions that the Egyptian king Sana Auaa had

his dog named Behukaa " between his feet (Petrie, 'History of Egypt,' i. 134).

Bran, "Raven," in the Celtic folk-tales, the dog which belonged to Fingal, should not be forgotten ; nor yet Mogh-eimh, "slave of the half," the name given to the first lapdog brought to Erin. See Baring-Gould, 'Book of the West, Devon,' p. 7.

Other ancient Egyptian dog-names will be found in Budge, ' History of Egypt,' ii. 188-9 ; Lady Amherst, 'Egyptian History,' 37 and 111. A. SMYTHE PALMER.

Fly. Letter of Edwin Palmer to his sister Eleanor, 25 October, 1835 : " Since we had Fly (the dog we borrowed to run with mine) " (* Memoirs, Family and Personal, of Roundel), Earl of Selborne,' i. 183).

Othello. A headstone at Encombe, Sand- gate, to a dog: "Othello lies here, a truly honest, faithful, and attached friend, born 1827 in the Himalayan mountains, died 1839."

Quiz. A Skye terrier, also buried at Encombe, Sandgate, formerly the residence of Mr. H. Dawkins. R J. FYNMORE.

A stone in the wall of the old garden at Ury, in Kincardineshire, bears :

" To the memory of Dan. the faithful companion of R. Barclay Allardice, Esq., of Ury, for sixteen years. Died 5th Feb., 1846, aged 17. A favourite dog." Jer vise's 'Epitaphs and Inscriptions,' vol. i. p. 84.

The dog of the famous amateur pedestrian and athlete better known as Capt. Barclay, b. 1779, d. 1854. R. BARCLAY- ALLARDICE.

Let me add a few more from works of fiction, for the list would almost be interminable did it embrace the names of dogs from packs of hounds, though one of these may be added from Shakspeare :

Bronte. The favourite Newfoundland "dowg" of Christopher North, supposed to have been poisoned by some of Dr. Knox's students at Edinburgh (see ' Noctes Ambro- sianse ').

Hector. Dog of the Ettrick Shepherd (see ' Noctes Ambrosianse').

Boatswain. Lord Byron's favourite dog, whose tomb may yet be seen at Newstead Abbey.

Wolf. The dog who rescues Roland Graeme, when a child, from drowning (see ' The Abbot ').

Bawtie. The pedlar's little dog in ' Waverley ' (chap, xxxvi.).