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The Bourne Archive

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Fenland Notes and Queries. Edited by Rev. W.D. Sweeting, Rector of Maxey.

Part 40. January 1899.

This quarterly periodical took the form of a forum in which people sent in questions about the history, ecology and so on of the Fens and the region’s environs and others replied with some sort of answer. Some ‘answers’ seem to have been spontaneous, so qualifying as ‘notes’.

Curiosities

759. A Lincolnshire Terrier. – The following cutting from The Standard of 23 Dec., 1898, is worth preserving in our pages. This animal has no connection with the terrier in Art. 727.

The homing instinct of the terrier has this week been well illustrated in Lincolnshire. About a month ago, a tradesman received by rail a terrier from Frieston, in the Wash. The animal was taken to a village three miles distant, where it remained three weeks. On Saturday night it was missing. On Tuesday a letter was received, stating that the terrier had safely reached its old home at Frieston, early on Monday morning. The animal had traversed the entire breadth of the Lincolnshire Fens, a distance of forty miles, over and intricate maze of dyke and fen.

G. Talbot.

[Nowadays, Freiston in Holland, Lincolnshire is distinguished from Frieston in Kesteven by the spelling of its name. Here, the text makes it clear that Freiston is meant. RJP]

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