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house. Anyhow, after I had put up the horses at an inn, I 
spent the morning with the terrier and his new masters, and 
in the afternoon was accompanied by them to the inn. I 
should have mentioned that the inn was the same as that at 
which the conveyance had been put up on the previous occa- 
sion, five months before. Now, the dog evidently remembered 
this, and, reasoning from analogy, inferred that I was about to 
return. This is shown by the fact that he stole away from our 
party — although at what precise moment he did so I cannot 
say, but it was certainly after we had arrived at the inn, for 
subsequently we all remembered his having entered the coffee- 
room with us. Now, not only did he infer from a single pre- 
cedent that T was going home, and make up his mind to go with 
me, but he also further reasoned thus : — ‘As my previous master 
lately sent me to town, it is probable that he does not want 
me to return to the country ; therefore, if I am to seize this 
opportunity of resuming my poaching life, I must now steal 
a march upon the conveyance. But not only so, my former 
master may possibly pick me up and return with me to my 
proper owners ; therefore I must take care only to intercept the 
conveyance at a point sufficiently far without the town to 
make sure that he will not think it worth his while to go back 
with me.’ 
Complicated as this train of reasoning is, it is the 
simplest one I can devise to account for the fact that 
slightly beyond the third milestone the terrier was await- 
ing me, lying right in the middle of the road with his 
face towards the town. I should add that the second two 
miles of the road w T ere quite straight, so that I could 
easily have seen the dog if he had been merely running a 
comparatively short distance in front of the horses. Why 
this animal should never have returned to his former home 
on his own account I cannot suggest, but I think it was 
merely due to an excessive caution which he also maui- 
fested in other things. However, be the explanation of this 
what it may, as a fact he never did venture to come brick 
upon his own account, although there never was a sub- 
sequent occasion upon which any of his former friends 
went to the town but the terrier was seen to return with 
them, having always found some way of escape from his 
intended imprisonment. 
The Rev. J. C. Atkinson gives an account (‘ Zoolo- 
