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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today, as Vernon Q Basset regarded me blandly from
the middle of the dining room table, I realized a profound truth. He is not an
ordinary basset... no, like Jill the Bagel and all the other climbers out
there, he is something else entirely.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I consulted a Latin/English dictionary (okay, web
translation site) and discovered that "climb" is translated, "escendo." Thus, I
realized that Vernon Q Basset represents a significant subspecies of basset --
the basset escendo, or (in English) the Ascending Basset.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Their motto? "<FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Per ardua ad <FONT face=Arial size=2>nutrimens</FONT></FONT>"
-- "through adversity to the food." I hope the Canadian air
force and the RCAF won't mind this variation of their motto... "through
adversity to the stars" seems a little lofty for Vernon Q, but there is
definitely adversity involved in his climbing attempts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the species has already been named (and no, I
don't just mean the names you shriek at the basset when you find him on the
dining room table), I will gladly bow to history and adopt the existing
nomenclature.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mary</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and Paddi B Basset,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and Vernon Q Basset, Basset
Escendo.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>