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forget where—at any rate, she had to change at a 
station where it seems she was tied up on the plat- 
form by a chain, her collar being as usual. She 
became frightened, slipped her collar, and away she 
went. Three months afterwards, knowing nothing 
about the spaniel, I was passing along a hedge with 
a spirited retriever, that was just getting useful. 
Suddenly there was a commotion in the hedge, out 
of which on the other side rushed a black spaniel. 
I caught sight of a trap on its near fore-paw, and 
gave chase. How, in the circumstances, that spaniel 
managed to run as she did I do not know, but she 
soon got a field ahead of me. So I set my retriever 
after her. Finally, after a run of about a mile with- 
out a check, we ran her to ground in a farmyard. 
She was very hostile; but I held her with a two- 
tined prong, fastened a cord round her neck, and 
removed the trap from her paw. From that 
moment she was as quiet as possible, and seemed 
pleased to allow me to carry her home, where I 
bathed her foot, and gave her milk and a soft: bed. 
I never found out where she got into the trap, which 
evidently had been on her paw for some days. I 
felt certain she was the same dog I had seen un- 
attended in a field about six weeks before, as I was 
cycling. 
I went to the police-station to make inquiries. 
The superintendent looked down the list of lost 
dogs, and said there was none answering to the 
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