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in the observance of the Sunday is carried to a 

 more than usual extent, have three Dogs, which 

 are turned out every morning into the garden, 

 where they frisk and bark about during six days 

 of the week. On the Sunday, however, the case is 

 very different. The dogs are trained to complete 

 silence on that day, of the arrival of which they 

 seem perfectly aware. Not a sound is then heard, 

 or a gambol seen, under an evident consciousness 

 that their usual sports would subject them to re- 

 prehension. 4 



A Rat, caught in a trap by the leg, has not only 

 been known to extricate itself by gnawing off the 

 leg ; but a well-authenticated fact has been commu- 

 nicated to me, of another rat having been seen 

 endeavouring to extricate his captured companion. 



A boy lately got up to a Squirrel's drey, in a 

 tree in Windsor Great Park, and finding the young 

 in it only just born, he left it, intending to come 

 when they were older and secure them. On going 

 to it a second time, he found the drey empty. 

 The old squirrels had taken the alarm, and removed 

 their young to a drey, which they had constructed 

 in a tree at some distance. 



A Cow belonging to a friend of mine, was sepa- 

 rated from her calf by means of a hurdle-fence, 

 placed across a field. She contrived, however, to 

 place her teats in such a position that the calf was 

 enabled to suck her. When this was discovered, 



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