130 CALF'S SENSE OF DIRECTION 

 Unless the gate is open nothing can pass at 

 this place. Here then, on the wrong side of 

 the gate, Mr. Jones, to his utter amazement, 

 beheld the calf which on the previous day he 

 had left tied up in a sack at the station. 



That the animal had somehow struggled out 

 of the sack and got clear of the place was quite 

 possible, for until the train was due there 

 would be no one on the platform ; but how so 

 young a creature could have found its way 

 over the ground described and crossed the 

 river, as it must have done, is hard to imagine 

 and will never be known. The fact of its being 

 found in the field by the river proved that it 

 could not have come there except in a direct 

 line. Had the animal kept to the road, which 

 lies half a mile or more back from the river, it 

 could by no possibility have crossed the inter- 

 vening land, which includes private grounds 

 and gardens, besides some impracticable 

 banks and hedges. Therefore there can be 

 no doubt whatever that the animal, acting 

 under nature's guidance, proceeded in a direct 

 line. 



To beUeve this calf mentally capable of 

 recording landmarks from the bottom of the 

 cart, or, for that matter, in any other position, 

 is of course absurd. Were this incident the 

 only evidence it is sufficient to prove that 



