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There are four red-lettered calendars about the house: one with the Sundays in red; one with Sundays and the legal holidays in red; one with the Thursdays in red, -- Thursday being publication day for the periodical sending out the calendar, -- and one, our own calendar, with several sorts of days in red -- all the high festival days here on Mullein Hill, the last to be added being the Pup's birthday which falls on September 15.
Pup's Christian name is Jersey, -- because he came to us from that dear land by express when he was about the size of two pounds of sugar, -- an explanation that in no manner accounts for all we went through in naming him. The christening hung fire from week to week, everybody calling him anything, until New Year's. It had to stop here. Returning from the city New Year's day I found, posted on the stand of my table-lamp, the cognomen done in red, this declaration: --