104 EEMINISCENCES OF A SPOETSMAN. 



apparently insurmountable difficulties, the dog had 

 found his way back. I think this is a problem to puzzle 

 the brains of most philosophers. 



There is an instance of a dog finding his way home 

 from Cambridge, a distance of upwards of a hundred 

 miles ; and it appears evident that the dog was induced 

 to undertake this journey because he felt the ennui of 

 an idle life with his young master at the college, and 

 that he wished to return home to enjoy his field 

 sports. 



" In 1823 a gentleman took a Sussex spaniel eighteen 

 miles in a gig, from near Market Easen in Lincolnshire 

 to Louth in that county, and then got on the Boston 

 and London mail, going some 110 miles on it to 

 Cambridge. The dog rode with the guard behind ; his 

 master, as an under-graduate, had no means of taking 

 him out shooting, but merely for a walk. The dog was 

 left asleep one day under his master's table while he 

 went to hall : on his return the dog was gone, and 

 could never be found. Some three weeks after old Suss 

 was seen coming across the fields in a contrary direction 

 to which he had been taken, very rough on his coat, as 

 if he had slept out of nights, but otherwise in very 

 tolerable condition, giving reason to suppose from his 

 keen sporting propensities, (for he was as good a dog as 

 ever was shot to) that sundry rabbits and hares had 

 furnished his commissariat. 



In 1850 Conductor Tanks, of the Bengal Ordnance 

 Department, was sent in charge of a fleet of powder 

 boats from Ishapore to Futteghvir. He had on board an 

 English spaniel. Anchoring the boats one evening, (as 

 is the custom) he went on shore to take a walk on the 

 banks of the river, accompanied by his dog. On his 



