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by a keeper, and shot at and wounded a hare, which 



ran through one of the several holes made at the 



bottom of a stone wall. The keeper sent a favorite 



retriever after the hare. The dog jumped over the 



wall, caught the hare, and returned with it in his 



mouth to the- wall, but after several attempts was 



unable to jump back again with his additional load. 



Giving up his ineffectual efforts, the dog was seen 



to push the hare with his nose as far as he could 



through one of the holes at the bottom of the wall. 



He then leapt over it, dragged the hare through the 



hole on the other side, and brought it to his master. 



From the high spot on which the parties stood, 



they were able to witness the whole of the dog's 



proceedings, which certainly appear to have been 



caused by some faculty beyond mere instinct." " A 



gentleman living near Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, was 



one day riding over his farm and superintending his 



plough-men, who were ploughing a piece of fallow 



land. He saw a Partridge glide off her nest so 



near the foot of the plough-horses that he thought 



the eggs must be crushed; this, however, was not 



the case, but he found that the old bud was on the 



very point of hatching, as several of the eggs were 



beginning to crack. He saw the old bird return to 



her nest the instant he left the spot. It was evident 



that the next round of the plough must bury the 



eggs and nest in the furrow. His astonishment 



was great when returning with the plough, he came 



to the spot, and saw the nest indeed, but the eggs and 



