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to find their way, is not conveyed to them through the ordinary 
channels of the senses. 
Of this power in animals, I know of two remarkable instances 
in my own knowledge. During the mastership of Mr. Millom 
Hartley, the late Lord Leconfield sent two foxhounds from 
Petworth to the Cumberland kennels. They went by rail from 
Petworth to London, were led across London, and again by rail 
from Euston Square to Dalston station. ‘They remained for a 
month at the kennels there, going out with the hounds, when one 
day they simultaneously disappeared. Some days after—I do not 
remember how long—when the huntsman at Petworth opened the 
kennel door in the early morning, the first thing that greeted him 
was one of the hounds, who laid his paws on his shoulders. His 
companion was never heard of again. It is worthy of remark that 
the hound that reached home had more character than the other ; 
he was an excellent hound, but was draughted for skirting and 
running cunning. 
In another case a badger was kept for four years in a loose 
box attached to a stable. He made his escape, and two days 
after he was dug out of a hole from which he had originally been 
taken. This badger must have recrossed a river to regain his home, 
which river he had crossed four years before in the bottom of a 
sack. He had been placed in a sack on capture, and not enlarged 
until he reached the place of his confinement. 
Here is another instance, not within my own knowledge, still 
lower down in the scale of creation. At Falmouth, the crabs 
caught at the Lizard, some twelve miles distant, were taken to 
the harbour, branded with the mark of the fisherman, and placed in 
a box alive to await sale. The box was staved in, and the crabs 
escaped. Three days afterwards many of them were again captured 
at the Lizard. To reach this they must have found their way to 
the mouth of the harbour, and having arrived there, learned by 
some strange perceptive power, in which direction their home lay ; 
for it was far out of any possible range of vision, and they had been 
carried to their prison in a boat. It is suggested that this is made 
possible by the possession of another sense of which we know 
