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with a friend about eighteen miles from Orange, New South 
Wales. My host brought a half-grown kitten sixteen miles 
by a eross-bush track, tied in a flour-bag at the bottom of a 
buggy. She was fed that night; in the morning she had 
disappeared. She was home again in rather less than four 
days.” The same person owned a horse in the interior of 
Australia, which, after two years of quiet residence on his 
run, suddenly departed, and was next heard of one hundred 
miles away, at the run of the old master from whom it had 
been stolen years before. 
A rough-coated cur was taken by a gentleman to whom 
he had been given from Manchester to Liverpool by train, 
thence to Bangor, North Wales, by steamboat; but on 
Janding at Bangor the dog ran away, and the fourth day 
afterward, fatigued and foot-sore, was back in his home 
kennel, having undoubtedly travelled straight overland the 
whole distance. The same gentleman knew of a kitten 
that was carried in a covered basket six miles from one 
side of Manchester to the other, and found its way back 
the next day through the turbulent streets. Similarly, a 
fox-hound transported in a close box between points one 
hundred and fifty miles distant, and part of the way 
through the city of London, came back as soon as let 
loose. A retriever bitch did the same thing from Hud- 
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