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through a hedge or over hurdles, etc., we had the 

 mortification of seeing the dog disappear through or 

 over the hedge on the opposite side, and very weari- 

 some work it was. 



At length I decided to go on to Oxford, with 

 the rest of my dogs, and left the matter of the 

 lost dog with the railway company, who, I was 

 informed, offered a reward for his recovery, and 

 about a month afterwards I had a letter asking 

 me to call at one of their stations where they 

 thought a dog lately found answered the descrip- 

 tion of mine. This turned out to be correct and I took 

 home the dog, making a small claim for expenses I had 

 been put to in the matter. The dog was not in bad con- 

 dition, and still wore the collar and chain on him when 

 lost, but it is strange how that dog managed to live for 

 a month in such a sparsely inhabited district as that 

 round about Didcot, at any rate at that time, which is 

 about fifteen years ago. 



