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happy unless with them at home, or travelling about. 

 His chief delight was to travel up and down with the 

 Brighton coach. He had been known to travel, during 

 the last spring of his life, for eight successive days to 

 and from Brighton, Sundays intervening. 



" The distance from London to Brighton by way 

 of Leatherhead, Dorking, Horsham and Henfield, 

 the road which the stage coach traversed is sev- 

 enty-four miles. It was with great difficulty he could 

 be kept on the coach, always preferring to run by the 

 side of it and it was his being placed on the top of the 

 coach, from feelings of humanity on the part of Clarke, 

 the coachman, which cost him his life. 



" On one occasion the guard placed him inside the 

 coach, when there were no passengers, but in a few 

 minutes he was surprised to see him running beside the 

 coach, having jumped clean through the glass window. 



" During the early part of the summer he went with 

 a strange coach to Tunbridge Wells, not liking his berth 

 he did not return to London by the same conveyance, 

 but found his way across the country from Tunbridge 

 Wells to Brighton and went up to London with his 

 favourite team. 



" He was well known by many on the road from 

 London to Brighton, and in some places on the journey 

 met with hospitable treatment. At the time of his 

 death he was about five years old. Clarke informed us 

 that he would kill a goose on his travels by the road- 

 side, throw it over his back like a fox, and run for 

 miles, and he offered to lay a wager that the dog would 

 accompany the coach between Brighton and London 



