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Baggs, we may add, was a married man, and Juliana and he had not had much
conversation.


CHAPTER XXXVI
MR. BRAGG'S KENNEL MANAGEMENT

The reader will now have the kindness to consider that Mr. Puffington has
undergone his swell huntsman, Dick Bragg, for three whole years, during
which time it was difficult to say whether his winter's service or his
summer's impudence was most oppressive. Either way, Mr. Puffington had had
enough both of him and the honours of hound-keeping. Mr. Bragg was not a
judicious tyrant. He lorded it too much over Mr. Puffington; was too fond
of showing himself off, and exposing his master's ignorance before the
servants, and field. A stranger would have thought that Mr. Bragg, and not
'Mr. Puff,' as Bragg called him, kept the hounds. Mr. Puffington took it
pretty quietly at first, Bragg inundating him with what they did at the
Duke of Downeybird's, Lord Reynard's, and the other great places in which
he had lived, till he almost made Puff believe that such treatment was a
necessary consequence of hound-keeping.


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