WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



enables them to perform the home-returning jour- 

 neys/' this gentleman said : 



''When I resided at Selhurst, on the Brighton 

 & South Coast Railway, a friend living at Sut- 

 ton gave me an Irish retriever bitch. She came 

 over to him about a month previously 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 dis- 

 tance 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 afternoon. " 



But this proved to be a mild instance of such 

 performances. A fox-hound was taken by train 

 in a covered van forty miles from the kennels of 

 one hunt to those of another 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 hun- 

 dred yards of the kennel. ''Here," relates the 

 narrator, "I noticed her go into a field, sit down, 

 and look about her. I called out to the young gen- 

 tleman who hunts the hounds, whose way home 



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