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ent, “but no argument against another cat or dog home- 
returning twenty or thirty miles across a strange district 
by means of instinct.” And as evidence of his conclusion 
that “there is an attribute of animals, neither scent, sight, 
nor memory, which enables them to perform the home-re- 
turning journeys,” this gentleman said : 
“When I resided at Selhurst, on the Brighton and South 
Coast Railway, a friend living at Sutton gave me an Irish 
retriever bitch. She came over to him about a month pre- 
viously from the County Limerick, where she was bred; 
and during her stay at Sutton she was on chain the whole 
time, with the exception of two walks my friend gave her 
in the direction of Cheam, which is in an opposite quarter 
to Selhurst from Sutton. She came to me per rail in a 
covered van, and the distance from home to home is about 
nine miles. She was out for exercise next morning, ran 
away, and turned up at her previous home the same after- 
noon.” 
But this proved to be a mild instance of such perform- 
ances. A fox-hound was taken by train in a covered van 
forty miles from the kennels of one hunt to those of an- 
other in Ireland. The hound was tied up for a week, and 
then she was taken out with the pack. She hunted with 
them for the day, and returned in the evening to within a 
