The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-06-05
rAvoRlrE OH DOCS, NAMES.
Tray Is Familiar IN History Houncedln
Ball and Nsuus.

TRAY Is Familiar IN History -Rouncedln
Bal and N"uus
London Evening Standard.
"The name of .Alies Dog" SAYS Mr. pu
Mauri.r in Tfilhy like that of 50 many
dogs in fiction ani 80 few in fact. was
simply Tray" /, IS certainly curious that
Tray which Is SO familitr to most oars as
a book name for a dog is yet 50 seldom
really bestowed upon the animal kins
..'rhc little dogs and all,
Tray. lSlanch and Sweetheart, see, they
bark ut me
cay makes his shepherd Cuidy talk of
his en- Tray aad narnpm. in some In
eoldshian lines. has olltollmca the mcm-
ory Of his poor dog Tray a phrase
which allades to a once nopular song
Many other literary oNampics OF ,hiS dog
name miuht ho quoted T. may MOI he
item given dogs nowadays, but here
ccrtninlS have been SOM real live I'Ays.
In Tho third Volume oi the NernrN Me-
moiis there is a letter from Mistress
Moli CAPE, on. Of Sir Ralph Noiney cor
Respondents w which that lady ,wlitinE
from London says. sir Tray, thinht.
is just now NJ u iier delivery: sh" hatn
had twelve puppies hut half of them bee
dead but them that are liVelnS are very
fat. u.- uy The next return they Nil
scnd YOU douup many thankcs Tor the
bones Of yola paririiges aud larkes \
great antiquity has been claimed Ior TRAY
a. representing the ancient BRUSH name
%. dog. TWO faVcritc old fnSilsh rhis.rs
Tor dog were Rail and LoNel In the
| Mirror for Magistrates are the lines:
ITO l.oyrls nam | added more our dog.
because most doss have borne 'Nal ial'e
nal seems to have heen applied indis-
/ crimnatrly to various HualrNpeHs. u
was a common name for a horse. The
nam" ha- also heen found applied 10 a
! eh..n and not iufre,utu- Is TO 4. dog, one
! canine "i}all has the honor of nentinr
] Ia ms
| VIE 'NenuT' vas = common ms'ilaeNa!
| nam. Tor a lidy's lap dog. crab IL lrrs
| prominently in the TWO Gentleman from
| Verona.
The names of many dogs have become
known TO history IN connection with fam
Gus owners Diamond, the mischi.youS
| animal that destroyed some OF Sir Isaac
| New'on's valuable papers. redueins me
| labors of months to ashes In TOW M :
m,nts lives in his masters gentle reproo'
Bounce" IS n twi,'e famous name. fope
| had a great ios called Bounce. and at us
death thought Of cree ing tombstone
It's memory. WITH The inscription, ION, rart
Bounce. He reliuqutshed the idea. nov,
over. being afraid list he phrase might
be construed as sarcasm on lion J9nn
sons VII known epiiaph IN the AnpnN
i:nunce the second belonged To Aemira
| Cotlii .-swooa When Il ne admiral Was raise
TO the uetrags, after the battle OF IRA
tnlgar he wrote home huniorouSiy a III
ing his daughters not to be too e,atcd over
his pr motion. and adding, with regard -
the doc. that the consequential airs Niff
-
a right honorable dog had been WhollA
lnsuiferable, lionnoe was ON board in'
Royal Sovereign during the famous bat
IT,. hut III not Ike thu sound of tho guns
Ills master "r9t" TO Lazy 'ollllSWoOi
i5ounce Is my only PEI now ana ne =
indeed GOOD lflloW. ~ ~. sii ~, 10y ~,
side of my cot whrnerHr IL I" one INV,
near thu time "f alta king. and thei
mhreheS on 10 pr put %, lyafi"s y, mn ~
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