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Show Ttir Iu'l llurf Tlirlr Iio. Tlir A letter rocontly recehwl from Ait American mLwtonary In Control Africa rv . eal n curlou lit of iutoniUtion on tlie ut of tho title In regard to tho butting of dogs. Tho letter tayii 'Tlio king of Hihe mado A great dbtur banco becauso Mr. Arnot, a Scotch I a Union-ory, Union-ory, burlel In the ground a dog whlcli ho hod Uh n obllge.1 to kill. Tho chief sent won! that thU wa a crime, and that the mhftJonary must tako np the Inxly and throw It Into tho river. After tliU he mtut kill a chicken and pprlnklo It blood upon the it round where th dog had been burlod. ".N'ow, It wa not deemed best to Anger tho king by refusing to do a ho eommandd, mi Mr, Amot took up tlie body of tbo dog nnd threw It Into the rirtr and paid a lino. AH they can ivty with I cotton clotli. And of this Ur. Amot luul to jiay forty ynrdt, hut he did not iprluklo tho blood of tho chicken on the ground, Lcaiim that would look hlvo pay Inn homaso to the tplrit.' IIowoTer, thero wa an old natho who felt that this mtut bo done In order to avert ovil comtenenees so ho klllnd the chicken and went through tho ceremony. Now York Tribune |