WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



trace for miles, at full speed and with heads high, 

 the step of a Mercury-footed fox, simply by the 

 faint odor with which his lightly touching pad 

 has tainted the fallen leaves. 



There are few cases where a dog is taken from 

 one home to another when he could not see most 

 of the time where he was going. In that compli- 

 cated journey of the Holywell workman's pet from 

 northern Wales to Manchester, the little fellow had 

 his e3^es open the whole distance, we may be sure, 

 and if he could speak he would no doubt tell us that 

 he remembered his previous journey pretty well. 

 But many times, especially where transported by 

 rail, it is unquestionable that dogs rely upon their 

 noses to get them back. Finding that they are 

 being kidnapped, carried off from home and friends 

 in this confined, alarming fashion, unable to see 

 out of the tight box of the close car, they do just 

 what you or I would do under similar circumstances 

 — exert every possible means left them of discover- 

 ing whither they are going, and take as many 

 notes as possible of the route, intending to escape 

 at the very first opportunity. One means of in- 

 vestigation remaining is the scent, and this they 

 would use to great advantage, examining the dif- 

 ferent smells as their journey progressed, and stow- 



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