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on to it and lashed firmly to the trolly and it was 

 brought without much difficulty as the weight was 

 only about thirty-five hundredweight, although it 

 looked a heavy affair. 



There was more time and trouble in fixing it 

 in its place in my yard, than in the journey there. 

 And some years afterwards when I changed my 

 residence, I got the village smith to fix an axle 

 and a couple of low strong wheels at each end of 

 the coach, and one of the neighbouring farmers easily 

 took it along the road to my new dwelling place, with a 

 couple of his cart horses, to the great amusement and 

 delight of the rural population, who insisted that each 

 of the divisions was filled with some of my dogs, which 

 were well known in the district as being frequent prize 

 winners. 



The following is related on the authority of an 

 old newspaper called the " Boston Traveller/' pub- 

 lished in the United States of America : A gentleman 

 stopping at an hotel in Boston, privately hid his pocket 

 handkerchief behind the sofa cushion in the coffee 

 room and left the hotel accompanied by his dog, after 

 walking for some distance, he suddenly stopped and 

 said to his dog, " I have left my handkerchief at the 

 hotel, go back and fetch it for me," giving no particu- 

 lar directions about it. The dog immediately returned 

 at full speed, and entered the room his master had just 

 left. He went directly to the sofa, but the handker- 

 chief was gone. He jumped upon tables and counters, 

 but it was nowhere to be seen. It turned out that a 

 friend of his master's had discovered it and supposing 



