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Hogarth comes from "hoggart," a hog-herd; Calvert from "calf-herd;" and Seward from "sow-herd." Lambert sometimes came from "lamb-herd." But we cannot always be sure of the origin of even the commonest surnames. For instance, every person named Smith is not descended from a smith, for the name also comes from the old word smoth, or "smooth," and this is the origin of Smith in Smithfield.
A great resolve was growing, but it needed more hammering into form, it wanted more prayer to bring it up to the measure of a Christian duty. And here we must leave him for the present, and pass to other and very different scenes and characters essential to the development of our story. "Four lane ends," a place where four roads meet. "Hoggart", a ghost.
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