WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



was the same as mine: 'J., Precious is not going 

 on with you/ 'Oh, there's no fear of 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 kennel 

 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 morn- 

 ing 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 morning reappeared in Birming- 

 ham, having travelled sixty miles in twenty-four 

 hours. Says one writer: "I was stopping with 

 a friend about eighteen miles from Orange, New 

 South Wales. My host brought a half-grown kit- 



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