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for me, as we were generally not far away from each 

 other. I had that dog from a puppy, and I knew he had 

 never seen that road before, it was dark soon after he 

 started, yet he must have travelled at the rate of five or 

 six miles an hour all the way, and at a time when there 

 would be few people or conveyances about to help him." 



I had a very similar experience with a dog of another 

 breed. I had been travelling in the island of Skye, and 

 bought from a game-keeper at a romantic looking vil- 

 lage called Uig, a young dog, which he called a Short- 

 Haired Skye Terrier, but which was, really, what is 

 now known as a Scottish, or Aberdeen Terrier, called by 

 the Gaelic name of " Fraochen," which I believe means 

 heather, and was very appropriate in his case, for he 

 was just that sort of brindle grizzled colour, that if he 

 was in the heather (as I noticed many times while he 

 was with me,) you could hardly distinguish him from 

 it. 



After going about with us to various places, I brought 

 him to my mother's house at Clifton in Gloucestershire, 

 where I was making a short stay, and the following day 

 I went out for a drive over the Durdham Downs, 

 through Westbury, Henbury, etc., to a village, about 

 ten or twelve miles from Clifton, and (as I have since 

 thought very foolishly,) I allowed, " Fraochen," to 

 follow the trap, and several times during the journey, 

 there I noticed him running by the side, or in front, but 

 when we had accomplished the journey and were about 

 to return by a different route, I missed him, and it then 

 struck me, what a fool I had been, to take out a young 

 dog, not only along a strange road, but in a country 



