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and I felt certain that my clog was right. Follow- 

 in<i* him throim'h the wire while he was at a 

 check, and in getting over the ditch, of com'se I 

 kept my eyes about me, and at once saw the 

 reason Avhy the dog Avas at a loss. The two men, 

 fearing pursuit, and that they might he seen from 

 the hills, had gone into the ditch, and carried 

 their burden coasting the line of rails. On seeing 

 this I called to my dog, and, beckoning Avith my 

 hand, sent him into the ditch, and on the track 

 again. The pursuit continued thus for some dis- 

 tance, and then, leaving the ditch, ascending the 

 rising ground towards the notorious huts called 

 the village of Burley, the rise of the ground 

 capped by a considerable brake of furze. By this 

 time, loaded, as I was, with rifle and shot gun, 

 and ammunition for both, my dog had left me 

 some distance behind, and I miglit have been two 

 or three hundred yards in his rear, when I saw 

 him disappear in the high' gorse. He had not 

 entered the gorse long, when he emerged from 

 it at the spot where he went in, in the most 

 joyous way, impatient of the pace at which I was 

 coming up. Tlien he dashed into the gorse again, 

 and when he re-appeared, in the most extravagant 



