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ent, "but no argument against another cat or dog home- 

 returning twenty or thirty miles across a strange district 

 by means of instinct." And as evidence of his conclusion 

 that " there is an attribute of animals, neither scent, sight, 

 nor memory, which enables them to perform the home-re- 

 turning journeys," this gentleman said : 



"When I resided at Selhurst, on the Brighton and South 

 Coast Railway, a friend living at Sutton gave me an Irish 

 retriever bitch. She came over to him about a month pre- 

 viously from the County Limerick, where she was bred ; 

 and during her stay at Sutton she was on chain the whole 

 time, with the exception of two walks my friend gave her 

 in the direction of Cheain, which is in an opposite quarter 

 to Selhurst from Sutton. She came to me per rail in a 

 covered van, and the distance from home to home is about 

 nine miles. She was out for exercise next morning, ran 

 away, and turned up at her previous home the same after- 

 noon." 



But this proved to be a mild instance of such perform- 

 ances. A fox-hound was taken by train in a covered van 

 forty miles from the kennels of one hunt to those of an- 

 other in Ireland. The hound was tied up for a week, and 

 then she was taken out with the pack. She hunted with 

 them for the day, and returned in the evening to within a 



