The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-05-31

had 1t ever run upon the prairie, "Ho
vet during the night it centrivcd to
break its tether line, and in the dark
to find it's way back to our camp; and
what is more strange, the horse ac-
tually SWAN the stream it had during
the day been ferried over in boat
By what means, it may be asked, did
the horse contrivate to find its way
over Il grassy waste, never trodden by
it previously, to given point so far
distant There was no path or taril,
and in the dark the horse could not,
except by smelling, have retraced its
own footprints.
Many similar anecdotes are on re-
cord. to which the following authen-
ticated cases may be added. A horse
was turned out in some marshes near
the Thames. The distance in a straight
line from his owners house was only
few miles, but he had to he sent
long way round to cross the bridge.
In less than twenty-four hours he
made his appearance at the stable
door dripping wet, having swum tho
river and taken straight line home.
During the life of the celebrated
sportsman, the late Sir Richard Sutton,
draft of young hounds was sent up
to London, by wagon, from the kennel
near Lincoln, and there put on board
. vessel to 60 abroad. When the ship
/, was dropping down the Thames one of
them jumped overheard and swan
ashore. Some weeks after it made its
;, appearance at the kennel half-starved
;, and covered with bites bestowed upon
. it by its more fortunate fellows. l re-
rret to have to add that it was killed
y Immediately, so many valuable hounds
n having recently been destroyed I'D that
- pack by madness, that the huntsman
= was afraid to take it in.
70 Some years since dog fox was run
to ground on Hatfield Heath, near
: Ashford Kent. When dug ont he was
found to have some remarkable white
: spots about him, therefore the Earl OF
- Thanet had him sent to his scat il
90 Westmoreland-Appleby Ca tle-i
distance of three hundred miles, ant
- turned down. A fortnight afterward
=, tile same fox was killed near Hatch
81 feld-his native place.
md 'Not very long ago." says on
M writer, ~ saw COW bought at farr
I,nt auction. About o'clock in the even
,f,l ing she was sent off home by the pun
So chaser, and placed in the yard, dis
nd lance of fifteen miles from her fOrme
,cs home. At six o'clock the next morn
ing she was found back in her oil
shed, quietly chewing the cud, an
."' waiting to be MIXED as usual.
'I once purchased a brood of duel
- lings, about month old, without Il
81 hen that Matched them. took the
home and placed them, as l thoug
=. safely, in pig-pound. In the NOR
r.. ing found they were all gone, and
- discovered them snugly huddlcd t
80 gether at their old quarters, at t
other end of the village, in the ns
/, in which they were Matched. A
~ bOrer told me that he had met them
wv the street, homeward bound, at
o'clock A. NJ, as he was going to wo
80 They had not been off the premi
no where they were bred before"
H.. There seems no doubt that Pro
: for dence has bestowed on animal an
= 10 stinct which we do not possess, {
woe can therefore with difficulty comp
Tho bend or explain. BY this insti
VOC birds of passage find their way to
g the '',ioOe'' on'' az"
h.a You'd that of sight or other outw
: tho senses.-[New Orleans Picayune.
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