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 ying when he runs. Young horses, when disturbed, very easily break into a gallop, and as e gander manages to keep so near the colt, at he may be seen flying vigorously alongside him, it is certainly strange that it never ocrred to him to take a ride. If the mouth of e other, while collecting provender, should me too near his feet, he stretches forth his eck, elevates his wings, hisses gently, and by her motions admonishes him to keep at a per distance. Though geese graze as well kine, the bird in question is rarely seen nibing a pile of grass, and his chief dependance, e believe, is placed on the stray pickles of corn  caters in the stable. On one occasion, the ung horses at Allanton were removed to a ld at some distance, and then the poor gander d to dree a very dreary period of widowhood. he could have spoken or sung, his ditty would ve been, "I wander dowie a' my lane;" but en the colts returned—that is, the bay oneshe was seen hurrying to meet them, half running, half flying, and cackling forth his congratulations to the very topmost note of the gammut joy. In April last, we happened to be at lanton, and as a matter of course visited the ose of whose eccentric habits we had heard so ch. A new scene then presented itself. In course of the day, a score or two of capital hland bullocks had been let into the field, and se the gander seemed to look on with a very ndiced eye. By mere accident one of them roached too near the favourite colt—an