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wildly off, a free creature again, able to 

 devote her whole attention to the one she loved 

 best. On one occasion Dan left Mottisfont a 

 few days after the pups had been drowned, 

 and Pita was much exercised in her mind as to 

 whether she had done wisely to be pleased at 

 her puppyless condition. After a little she 

 decided that her tub was rather desolate, and 

 with a curious working of the canine mind, she 

 fetched four dead moles that were hanging on a 

 railing near, and put them in the place of her 

 pups, and she soon became as ferocious over 

 these treasures, as if they had really been her 

 progeny. For months after Dan's death, if 

 Pita heard a lively air being played on the hall 

 piano after the manner of her master, who 

 was an accomplished musician, she would look 

 up in a curious quick way, and dash off to see 

 if it could possibly be him come back again — but 

 alas ! to return in a lew seconds, with a dis- 

 appointed expression on her face. I am sure 

 if she could speak, she would oftentimes have 

 said, "Where is he? that he never comes 

 back again." 



Dan's collection of ov/ls, which supplements 

 that of eagles, was largely made during the 

 last two years of his life. The Milky eagle- 

 owls from Benin, as shown in the picture, were 



