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former abodes, but can, like dogs and various other quad- 
rupeds, and even turtles, as we bave before remarked, find 
tbeir way by some unknown faculty to places from which 
they have been removed. A few years ago a gentleman, 
near Chapel-le- Frith, in Derbyshire, took a young Raven from 
its nest, and kept it in an out-building for some months ; 
its wings were then clipped, and it was allowed to go at 
large. It soon became well known for a mile round, regularly 
visiting every farm-house within that distance whenever a 
pig was killed, when it was always rewarded with some tit- 
bits. Soon after the death of its owner, about three years 
ago, the Raven was given to a surgeon, resident in Stock- 
port, Cheshire, who kept it chained by the leg for about 
twelve months ; he then gave it its liberty, and as before, it 
wandered about near home, but not with the same success, 
for its thigh was one day broken by some idle, thoughtless 
boys, who threw stones at it. The fracture was reduced, the 
Raven recovered, and then again took to rambling about for 
a few weeks, when it disappeared altogether, and was sup- 
posed to have met with an untimely end ; — when, about a 
fortnight after it had been missed, the news arrived of its 
safe return to its old residence at Chapel-le- Frith, distant 
fourteen miles, where it was allowed to remain, and where 
it still lives. 
A writer in the Naturalist'’ s Magazine says that he re- 
members, about fourteen years ago, seeing on a post near the 
Elephant and Castle inn, at which such a multitude of 
coaches stop, an inscription on “ Ralph,” a Raven of great 
celebrity, who had been in his days a distinguished member 
of the Elephant and Castle establishment. Those who re- 
collected him gave several instances of his sagacity, amongst 
others, that of his knowledge of, and intimacy with, several 
of the coachmen ; with his particular favourites and friends 
he would frequently take short jaunts out on the coach top, 
until he met some other coach, whose driver he also knew, 
passing in a homeward direction, when he would imme- 
diately change coaches and return. 
A still more curious anecdote of attachment and observa- 
