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<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Memories of the best
of days to all my fellow indentured Basset servers ... tears of sorrow to those
who I've not reached out to in the past year +, I've been extremely busy and
even more so, feel the sorrow of not wishing you personal
condolences.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As of right now, I'm
up way past my bed time, having had another of those brutal tech support days
(two people leaving, 1 person about as helpful as a short timer, and regardless
the trouble tickets continue to pour in) ... and so I'm up ... looking for ways
to relax and gazing through my email I find ... Riche Churchill ... with a
Bugler from July - Aug 1970.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I was but two and a
half when this issue of the Bugler originally circulated ... and like with every
episode of this hound mag from yester-year, I find it reminding me of those days
... schlepping buckets of dog chow, annoying my older sister who .. had started
*her* indentured servitude some 6 years before me... </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I see in these pages
the fondness of days past or passed .. however you decide to read it ... and
again a tear stirs from within, remembering my losses, my wins, my servitude to
this thing called Basset ... and remember my place among you all...
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>May these days be
better and better,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>may your houndies
ever love</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>may the sky never
darken</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>on that corner of
your life, your love,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>your basset hound,
your friend, your companion,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>your
hound.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thank you Ms.
Churchill ... may the heavens hold you enthroned with hounds all around.
The love that you've shown us, the extraordinary hound, the basset, the hunt,
the smells and the sound, the thing that will haunt us,
that beautiful basset hound.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2
face=Arial>-Robert</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=323583405-30082013><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Slave to Riley &
Henry, formerly indentured to Franklin &
Doc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>