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Traveler, for his part, never failing to fetch one or two 

 windfall apples from the garden, laying them on the grass 

 before the pony, and hailing its enjoyment 0? them with the 

 liveliest demonstrations of delight. 



1. That such relations should exist between the horse 

 and the dog seems natural enough ; but that a horse should 

 be hail-fellow with a hen appears too absurd to be true ; 

 yet we have Gilbert White's word for it that a horse, lack- 

 ing more suitable companions, struck up a great friendship 

 with a hen, and displayed immense gratification when she 

 rubbed against his legs and clucked a greeting, while he 

 moved about with the greatest caution lest he might tram- 

 ple on his "little, little friend." 



8. Colonel Montagu tells of a pointer which, after be- 

 ing well beaten for killing a Chinese goose, was further 

 punished by having the murdered bird tied to his neck — a 

 penance that entailed his being constantly attended by the 

 defunct's relict. Whether he satisfied her that he repented 

 the cruel deed is more than we know ; but after a little 

 while the pointer and the goose were on the best of terms, 

 living under the same roof, feeding out of one trough, oc- 

 cupying the same straw bed ; and, when the dog went on 

 duty in the field, the goose filled the air with her lamenta- 

 tions for his absence. 



9. A New Zealand paper says : " There is a dog at 

 Taupo, and also a young pig, and these two afford a curious 

 example of animal sagacity and confidence in the friend- 

 ship of each other. These two animals live at the native 

 pah on the opposite side of Tapuaeharuru, and the dog 

 discovered some happy hunting-grounds on the other side, 

 and informed the pig. The pig, being only two months 

 old, informed the dog that he could not swim across the 

 river, which at that spot debouches from the lake, but that 

 in time he hoped to share the adventures of his canine 

 friend. The dog settled the difficulty. He went into the 



