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hundred yards of the kennel. “Here,” relates the narra- 
tor, “I noticed her go into a field, sit down, and look about 
her. I called out to the young gentleman who hunts the 
hounds, whose way home was the same as mine: ‘J., Pre- 
cious is not going on with you.’ ‘Oh, there’s no fear of 
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her, 
was the reply. ‘As she came so far, she will come 
the rest of the way.’ So we went on to the kennel close 
by, but Precious did not appear, and we came back at once 
to the spot, sounded the horn, and searched everywhere. 
That was at six o’clock in the evening. On the following 
morning at six o’clock, when the messman went to the ken- 
nel door at Doneraile, Precious was there.” 
An officer took a pointer which certainly had never been 
in Ireland before, direct from Liverpool to Belfast, where 
he was kept for six months at the barracks. He was then 
sent by train and cart, in a dog-box, thirty-four miles into 
the country, and tied up for three days. Being let out on 
the morning of the fourth, he at once ran away, and was 
found that same evening at the barracks at Belfast. 
A sheep-dog was sent by rail and express wagon from 
the city of Birmingham to Wolverton, but, escaping from 
confinement the next Saturday at noon, on Sunday morn- 
ing reappeared in Birmingham, having travelled sixty miles 
in twenty-four hours. Says one writer: “I was stopping 
