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Show Nature Notes. India's hunting leopard, the cheetah, has a reputation as one of the most gontlomnnly of boasts. Three Calcutta visitors to northorn India were out on a tramp when they were overtaken by a thuridi.rslorm. They espied a cave in ' tho side, of a hill and iuto it they rnplicd. When tho rain stopped they i came out and found a cheetah sitting licking tho heavy wet oft' his waistcoat and his qaws. It was his cave: but rather than deprive his visitors of their ; shelter the polite creature had sal. out- j side in the driving tempest. With a J friendly mew and gracefully wagging I hi3 tail, the cheetah bade adieu to his guests and walked with dignity iuto his house. "A horso who hne always been made to obey quickly will respond to corn- j man-Is from any one, whereas tho crea- s tare who has been petted and talked to accords, unless hungry, scant attention to any one. We talk to horses altogether alto-gether too much, and it is a sill v and dant'oroua custom," declares P. M. Wnre in a current magazine. Ho adds that the animal's attention is kept if the rider or driver i3 silent tho horse's anxiety being always to find out what his "master wishes done. Chicago News. E |