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INSTINCT IN DOGS

commons in Surrey, I have of

animation, watch

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nd sufficiently 1;10

,ri its own power

where they will I

sessed, one of t

more than ordinary

floating on the sea abort twenty ya

as a buoy to the author of a small boat. Ile to

dragged, in vain t,f enart-e, when ,udeerd
remove the °Win le, and continued doing a
a time that I saw 11.-i was exhau-ted by I

not being able to mike Ibi
the waves'. I was foretti to I

im in, literally to pit v Jr his becoming a %jell

urage and staunchness

I was yin

years since at the country house of a friend DE

anlinn cur trturo to Paris we brought up

useless tic uari

which we turned k

When the family rose the next morning the keeper re-
ported the return of the dog, which !Ind eittea led Joe
mazes of the streets, havivg certainly never been in
earls before, and had jogeed quietly home. A small
shopkeeper of Adishain. in Kent, went out with his dog
without. anything: being apparently the water. Some
time afterwards the dog returned, but nut its ti 1'4,4. and
inade a whining noise; and barked very violently, looking
toward the door, and in its dumb Linguage 4,161 the
ptor woman to accompany it. This site, betiog alarmed,
,mthediately did ; when the faithful and sagaci,ius animal
led her to a wood, where she found her huslieuid suspended
ram the branch of a tree, dead ! While on the subject
if dogs the following trait of a fox, which was mentioned
in the Che Aler Chronicle, will riot he out of pl ice :—Tbe
!ate Earl of Thalia was in the habit of lertioving every
sear with his hunters and hounds from II thfield, tear
kshford in Kent, to another seat he had in %Vesta-tore-
and. A short time, previous to one of 'hese removals a
ox had been run to earth near Hi thfielil, and, upon
Bing dug out, he proved to he S t extraordinary loge and
Trd, 'Chaser
leconrdirected it to be cotter
coarse of yed to
Hothfield, an,:, up •ii being dugout,
tiAiteitn,estaiono,e(i,atreretithahia.adt,;..l;4"
at
rite huntsman, whipper-in, a.;4learth-stopp,r, all declared
•.

that it was the same fox which had been iskrn into Wr-st.
moreland, as it had an miusnalty large bl ,ze nn the fore-
nead. Lord 'Motet was exceedingly etretgetic in his ex-
oressions of disor lief of the statement of his people, but
hey persisted in their assertion; and haying ear•rnarked
lie fox he was a ain taken in Westmoreland, and tarried
loose in the neighbourhood of Appleby Castle. lo hunt-
ing the next season. ar liothfield, a f..x was killed at that
place; which proved to be the une in qu-slion, a..d which
had thus f: and its way from Westmoreland into K. nt.
liy what instinct or exert•. of its faculties the animal
was enabled to do this (the distance from one law!, to
ore other being ahoy.- 320 miles), it is n,,t easy to form
an idea. Its well•known running would, one might sup-
•ose, be of little avail in such an emergsmcy, except in
rnahl•ng it to procure fond.—Thompson'a No% e Book of
a Naturalist.