2TS FACT AGAIXST FICTIOX. 



end of the firs. lie had done so to some rational 

 purpose, for he soon was seen returning with the 

 Avounded plieasant that liad some time before flown 

 hack, and which lie in his own reason remembered, 

 and without bidding went to fetch. 



It is instinct that takes the carrier-pigeon, from 

 whatever distance, to her home ; it is instinct that 

 gives the dog the same power of direction, and 

 induces a young foxhound, if lost on the first day 

 of his going out cub-hunting, perhaps a long way 

 from his kennel and in a strange country, to come 

 directly home : not hy the roads over which ho 

 had proceeded to the distant woods with his hunts- 

 num in the morning, but, like the carrier-pigeon, 

 he comes direct as the crow flies to the desired 

 and loved spot. I used to see this with hounds 

 admirably illustrated Avhile huntinijc from Harold 

 Hall, in Bedfordshire. If a young hound was lost 

 on the Hanger Wood, or Ampthill side of tlie 

 country, to come home to liis kennel at Harold 

 Hall by the roads would be tln^ough the village 

 of Pavenham, and through Carlton over Harold 

 Bridge, and tlien turning througli one field on 

 his left, he would find the hall and the kennel 

 tandhig on that, the Harold side of the river. 



