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accompanying him from Essex to Bath in a post chaise, fomid 

 its way back through London, a distance of 140 miles in 

 three days. 



Perhaps a more remarkable instance is that recorded of his 

 dog by M. d'Obsonville. This animal accompanied his master 

 and a friend from Pondicherry to Bengalore, a distance of 

 more than nine hundred miles. M. D'Obsonville says, " Our 

 journey occupied nearly three weeks ; and we had to traverse 

 plains and mountains, and to ford rivets, and go along by- 

 paths. The animal, which had certainly never been in that 

 country before, lost us at Bengalore, and immediately returned 

 to Pondicherry. He went directly to the house of my friend, 

 M. Beglier, then commandant of artillery, and with whom I 

 had generally lived. Now, the difficulty is not so much to 

 know how the dog subsisted on the road (for he was very 

 strong, and able to procure himself food), but how he should 

 so well have found his way after an interval of more than a 

 month! This was an effort of memory greatly superior to 

 that which the human race is capable of exerting." 

 Dog Friendships That dogs make very strong friendships 



and Enmities, among themselves is attested by many an 

 affecting story. A Radnorshire lady, who married and went 

 to reside in Yorkshire, afterwards paid a visit to her old 

 home where her father, before her marriage, had kept two or 

 three sheep-dogs of whom she was very fond. Having retired 

 from business, her father had disposed of all but one dog, 

 and upon her arrival this one met the lady with every 

 demonstration of delight and, that same night, went a distance 

 of seven miles to a farmhouse where one of the other dogs 

 who had become blind, then lived. In the morning when 

 the lady went to the door she saw not only the dog which 

 had given her such a glad reception on the previous day, but 

 also the old blind one, which had evidently been brought 

 by the other dog to welcome her. Wlien the second night 

 came the old blind dog was taken back to its home by the 



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