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" The Duke de Leancourt had for the work in his 

 kitchen two Turnspits, which took their turns, regu- 

 larly, every other day in the wheel (something after 

 the style of the revolving cages for squirrels and 

 mice). One of them not liking his employment, hid 

 himself on the day it was his turn to work, when they 

 tried to force his companion to mount the wheel in his 

 stead, he cried, and wagging his tail, intimated to those 

 in authority to follow him. He at once conducted 

 them to an upstairs lumber room, where he dislodged 

 the idle dog, and gave him a good thrashing on the 

 spot." 



In Mr. Baker's " Rifle and Hound in Ceylon," 

 he says : " I was once shooting at Illepecadewe, which 

 is a lonely, miserable spot, when I met with a very 

 sagacious and independent sportsman in a most unex- 

 pected manner. I was shooting with a friend and we 

 had separated for a few hundred paces. Presently I 

 came upon a lot of Pea fowl and killed one of them 

 with my rifle. The shot was no sooner fired than I 

 heard another shot in the jungle, in the direction taken 

 by my friend. My rifle was still unloaded when a 

 spotted doe bounded out of the jungle, followed by a 

 white Pariah dog in full chase. Who would have 

 dreamt of meeting with a dog at a distance of more 

 than three or four miles from any houses ! I whistled 

 to the dog, and to my surprise he came to me, the deer 

 having, meanwhile, run clean out of sight in an incredi- 

 bly short space of time. He was a knowing looking 

 brute, and evidently out hunting on his own account. 

 Just at this moment, my friend called out to me that he 



