Chapter 1. How Finn Came Home
_ CHAPTER I. HOW FINN CAME HOME
Rightly to appreciate Jan‘s character and parts you must understand his origin. For this you must go back to the greatest of modern Irish wolfhounds, Finn； and to the Lady Desdemona, of whom it was said, by no less an authority than Major Carthwaite, that she was "the most perfectly typical bloodhound of her decade." And that was in the fifteenth month of her age, just six weeks before Finn‘s arrival at Nuthill.
When the Master was preparing to leave Australia with Finn he said, "It‘s ‘Sussex by the sea‘ for us, Finn, boy, in another month or so； and, God willing, that‘s where you shall end your days."
Just fourteen weeks after making that remark (and, too, after a deal more of land and sea travel for Finn than comes into the whole lives of most hounds) the Master bought Nuthill, the little estate on the lee of the most beautiful of the South Downs from the upper part of which one sees quite easily on a clear day

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