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hundred yards of the kennel. " Here," relates the narra- 

 tor, " I noticed her go into a field, sit down, and look about 

 her. I called out to the young gentleman who hunts the 

 hounds, whose way home was the same as mine : < J., Pre- 

 cious is not going on with you.' ' Oh, there's no fear of 

 her,' was the reply. 'As she came so far, she will come 

 the rest of the way.' So we went on to the kennel close 

 by, but Precious did not appear, and we came back at once 

 to the spot, sounded the horn, and searched everywhere. 

 That was at six o'clock in the evening. On the following 

 morning at six o'clock, when the messmari went to the ken- 

 nel door at Doneraile, Precious was there." 



An officer took a pointer which certainly had never been 

 in Ireland before, direct from Liverpool to Belfast, where 

 he \vas kept for six months at the barracks. He was then 

 sent by train and cart, in a dog-box, thirty-four miles into 

 the country, and tied up for three days. Being let out on 

 the morning of the fourth, he at once ran away, and was 

 found that same evening at the barracks at Belfast. 



A sheep-dog was sent by rail and express wagon from 

 the city of Birmingham to Wolverton, but, escaping from 

 confinement the next Saturday at noon, on Sunday morn- 

 ing reappeared in Birmingham, having travelled sixty miles 

 in twenty-four hours. Says one writer: "I was stopping 



