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This circumstance shows her affection for 

 these fondlings, and that she supposes the 

 squirrels to be her own young. Thus hens, 

 when they have hatched ducklings, are 

 equally attached to them as if they were 

 her own chickens. WHITE. 



HORSE. 



An old hunting mare, which ran on the 

 common, being taken very ill, ran down 

 into the village, as it were, to implore the 

 help of men, and died the night following 

 in the street. WHITE. 



HOUNDS. 



The king's stag-hounds came down to 

 Alton, attended by a huntsman and six 

 yeomen prickers, with horns, to try for 

 the stag that has haunted Hartley Wood 

 for so long a time. Many hundreds of 

 people, horse and foot, attended the dogs 

 to see the deer unharboured ; but though 



