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with a friend about eighteen miles from Orange, New South 

 Wales. My host brought a half-grown kitten sixteen miles 

 by a cross-bush track, tied in a flour-bag at the bottom of a 

 buggy. She was fed that night ; in the morning she had 

 disappeared. She was home again in rather less than four 

 days." The same person owned a horse in the interior of 

 Australia, which, after two years of quiet residence on his 

 run, suddenly departed, and was next heard of one hundred 

 miles away, at the run of the old master from whom it had 

 been stolen years before. 



A rough-coated cur was taken by a gentleman to whom 

 he had been given from Manchester to Liverpool by train, 

 thence to Bangor, North Wales, by steamboat; but on 

 landing at Bangor the dog ran away, and the fourth day 

 afterward, fatigued and foot -sore, was back in his home 

 kennel, having undoubtedly travelled straight overland the 

 whole distance. The same gentleman knew of a kitten 

 that was carried in a covered basket six miles from one 

 side of Manchester to the other, and found its way back 

 the next day through the turbulent streets. Similarly, a 

 fox-hound transported in a close box between points one 

 hundred and fifty miles distant, and part of the way 

 through the city of London, came back as soon as let 

 loose. A retriever bitch did the same thing from Hud- 



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