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any inquiry, could have adopted a more rational method of 
escaping from the difficulty. 
The sense of locality became subsequently highly developed 
in this dog. Mr. Challice writes: “Mutfet went to live with 
me in chambers in Southampton-street, Strand, and occa- 
sionally visited the old home in Wimpole-street with me. 
One morning she frightened a tradesman coming up the 
stairs of the chambers, by barking at him in her threatening 
but harmless manner, and before I went to my office in the 
City, I administered a slight correction. On my return in 
the afternoon, the housekeeper told me that the dog, soon 
after I left, went into the kitchen, jumped upon the dresser, 
cried for a few minutes, and then dashed out of the house, 
and away up the street. I went to Wimpole-street to tell 
my sisters of my loss, and was met in the hall there by 
Muffet, who had arrived at 11.15 a.m.—about twenty minutes 
after she had left the chambers in Southampton-street! ” 
“Some months afterwards, a similar fault having been 
committed, and a slight correction administered, the same 
result followed—a visit to Wimpole-street for sympathy. 
About a year and a half after the first flight, the home in 
Wimpole-street was broken up, und the day after the sale 
I took her with me and saw the dismantled house. She 
visited all the rooms in which her puppyhood had been spent, 
and seemed uneasy at their bare and forlorn condition. The 
next day I took her to King’s Cross station to bid farewell 
to my sisters, who were going abroad. The parting was 
affecting on both sides. Two days after this, she again barked 
at a tradesman in my chambers, and for the third time 
received a mild castigation. She did not this time seek 
consolation in Wimpole-street; she never went there of her 
own accord again. Once, when I took her there, to call on 
the new occupants, friends of ours, she renewed her ac- 
quaintance with the scenes of her early youth, but has never 
since sought them voluntarily.” 
About a year after these events, when she had formed an 
