His favorite female bull-dog, with her pups, slept in the royal martyr's apartment.

The places in Crompton Chase held remarkable were those where its present owner had made an unprecedentedly long shot, or had beaten off one of the wild cattle without a weapon, or had run down a stag on foot.

There was no relic of ancient times preserved whatever, except that at midsummer, as in Lyme, that very curious custom was kept of driving the red deer round the park, and then swimming them through the lake before the house--a very difficult feat, by-the-by, to any save those who have been accustomed to "drive deer." One peculiar virtue of Carew--he was addressed, by-the-way, by all his inferiors, and some of his equals, as "Squire" only--was, we had almost forgotten to say, his regard for truth, which may truly be said to have been "passionate," if we consider the effect produced in him when he discovered that any one had told him a falsehood.

He would fall upon them tooth and nail, if they were menials; and if guests, he would forbid them his house.

This was surely one excellent trait.