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tidings could we hear of the missing animal. At six 

 o'clock in the evening we were on our homeward track, 

 and called at a keeper's house to know if he had seen or 

 heard anything of him ; still no tidings. I then de- 

 termined, although pretty well tired, to go again to the 

 very spot where we had lost him, and search the ravines, 

 although my companion was very much averse to this 

 proceeding, and he told me afterwards he was afraid of 

 finding him. We walked and searched for two hours 

 more, when in going down a ravine, whistling and calling 

 the dog by name, his head suddenly appeared above the 

 heather and gorse, close to the side of the stream. He 

 had fallen in his fit down the steep bank into the water 

 below, which had restored him to his senses ; he crawled 

 out into the heather, and there laid for nearly eight 

 hours. He was quite recovered, but stiff and frightened. 

 Now, had this occurred in a thickly populated district, 

 the dog would most probably have bitten other animals 

 whilst the fit was upon him, or any one he met in his 

 way, and would unquestionably have been destroyed as a 

 mad dog. I reached my quarters about ten o'clock at 

 night, gave the dog a dose of calomel, and made him up 

 a bed in the corner of my bedroom, leaving the door 

 partially open for him to go down stairs if he liked. 

 When I got up in the morning 1 found the dog had been 

 down stairs, jumping round the servant girl, and frighten- 

 ing the landlady as well. From what I heard from my 

 companion of the day before, a consultation had been 

 held by the village gossips and the landlady, and it 

 had been resolved nem, con. that my dog was certainly 

 mad, and ought to be destroyed. My worthy hostess 

 soon made her appearance, and urged me to destroy him 



