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ten sixteen miles by a cross-bush track, tied in a 

 flour-bag at the bottom of a buggy. She was fed 

 that night; in the morning she had disappeared. 

 She was home again in rather less than four days. " 

 The same person owned a horse in the interior of 

 Australia, which, after two years of quiet residence 

 on his run, suddenly departed, and was next heard 

 of one hundred miles away, at the run of the old 

 master from whom it had been stolen years before. 

 A rough-coated cur was taken by a gentleman 

 to whom he had been given from Manchester to 

 Liverpool by train, thence to Bangor, North Wales, 

 by steamboat; but on landing at Bangor the dog 

 ran away, and the fourth day afterwards, fatigued 

 and foot-sore, was back in his home kennel, hav- 

 ing undoubtedly travelled straight overland the 

 whole distance. The same gentleman knew of a 

 kitten that was carried in a covered basket six 

 miles from one side of Manchester to the other, and 

 found its way back the next day through the tur- 

 bulent streets. Similarly, a fox-hound transported 

 in a close box between points one hundred and 

 fifty miles distant, and part of the way through 

 the city of London, came back as soon as let loose. 

 A retriever bitch did the same thing from Hudders- 

 field to Stroud, a fortnight after being taken to 



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