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a strap having spikes on it was put on the calf, 

 and it was then admitted into the same enclosure 

 with the cow. The latter, on finding the spikes 

 hurt her udder, lay down upon her side, and thus 

 the calf was able to suck without any pain to its 

 mother. 



In further illustration of the faculties of animals 

 under peculiar circumstances, I may mention the 

 following interesting and well-authenticated fact. 



The late Earl of Thanet was in the habit of 

 removing, every year, with his hunters and hounds 

 from Hothfield, near Ashford in Kent, to another 

 seat he had in Westmoreland. A short time pre- 

 vious to one of these removals, a Fox had been 

 run to earth near Hothfield ; and upon being dug 

 out, he proved to be so extraordinary a large and 

 fine one, that Lord Thanet directed it to be con- 

 veyed to Westmoreland. In the course of the 

 next season, a fox was run to earth again at Hoth- 

 field, and upon being dug out, the huntsman, whip- 

 pers-in, and the earth-stoppers, all declared that 

 it was the same fox which had been taken into 

 Westmoreland, as it had an unusually large white 

 blaze on his forehead. Lord Thanet was exceed- 

 ingly energetic in his expressions of disbelief of 

 the statement of his people, but they persisted in 

 their assertions, and having ear-marked the fox, he 

 was again taken into Westmoreland, and turned 

 loose in the neighbourhood of Appleby Castle. 



