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ages, but happily this depraved taste has now become nearly 
extinct. 
Lord Maynard lost a dog of this kind in France, which 
he in vain endeavoured to recover while in that country. 
He returned to England, where he had not long arrived 
before the dog appeared at his residence ; but the mode of 
his return has remained for ever unexplained, though it is 
probable that the dog s sagacity, when he had made his es¬ 
cape from confinement, prompted him to go to the sea-coast, 
where he must have found means to ffet on board some vessel 
bound for the opposite shore. 
