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friend's house in Hertfordshire, who had 

 lost a favourite terrier seven days : on going 

 out to look at his sporting dogs near the 

 house, he thought he heard the voice of 

 his lost dog. He recollected the last time 

 it was seen was near the mouth of a drain, 

 upwards of two hundred yards from the 

 spot from whence the sound came. He 

 immediately ordered his workmen to open 

 the drain, and they found the terrier jammed 

 in a narrow part of it ; the animal appeared 

 lively, and not the worse for her long fasting, 

 except being a little reduced in flesh, and the 

 next day very lethargic. I heard at the same 

 time a still more extraordinary instance of 

 a terrier remaining in an earth for twenty 

 days, and I dare venture to vouch for the 

 truth of it. The Hatfield hounds had run 

 a Fox to ground, and the terrier followed 

 it in. They dug many hours without com- 

 ing up to the fox or the dog ; and at last 

 were obliged to give it up as a hopeless 



