INSTINCT AND REASON IN DOGS, ETC. 237 



at Mallow, accompanied by a rough little terrier, 

 called Badger, came to tlie Eoyal Hotel in that 

 town, and remained there three months. At the 

 end of that time, the gentleman and his horses 

 and his dog returned hy train to Tralee, In forty- 

 five hours Badger retraced his ste2ys to the inn — a 

 distance, I believe, of sixty miles — and remained 

 there.. 



The landlord of the Royal Hotel then wrote to 

 Badger's master to say the dog had come back, 

 when orders were given for Badger's return home 

 by train. The command was obeyed, but Badger 

 seemed to have made uj) his mind that a ^4iome" 

 elsewhere had nothing whatever to do with it, for 

 within the week Badger's tail again wags in the 

 stable-yard of his selected residence, without any 

 apparent '^sexual selection" whatever; for ^^ sexual 

 selection " with a female of any kind he seems to 

 have had none, though he entertained vast enmity 

 to all the males of his own race, and kept them 

 from trespassing upon the premises where he 

 mounted guard. 



His owner, evidently not his master, for Badger 

 owned no such dictation, then abandoned the dog 

 to his fatCj and for a time Badger was contentedly 



