It belonged to Mrs.Wordsworth's brother, Mr.
Thomas Hutchinson, who then lived at Sockburn-on-the-Tees, a beautiful retired situation, where I used to visit him and his sisters before my marriage.

My sister and I spent many months there after my return from Germany in 1799.
435.

_Tribute to the Memory of the same Dog_.

[XVII.] Was written at the same time, 1805.

The dog Music died, aged and blind, by falling into a draw-well at Gallow Hill, to the great grief of the family of the Hutchinsons, who, as has been before mentioned, had removed to that place from Sockburn.
436._Fidelity_.