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Show Ccnir.e Intelligence "You can't overestimate the intelligence intelli-gence of a dog," de' lured Col. Spots-wood Spots-wood Telfair, of Mo mtam View, gazing gaz-ing reminisccntly at liis favorite hound engaged in snapping feebly at the pestiferous pes-tiferous (lies. "When Towser was in his prime he had an uncanny way of knowing in advance ad-vance the sort of gan.e I was going to hunt. For instance, If I left the house carrying a rille Towser would dash for the woods and trail nothing but squirrels. squir-rels. If I started out with a shotgun Towser would trail nothing but rabbits. rab-bits. "One day I decided to puzzle the old rascal, so I took down my fishing pole and started to the river. It may s.umd preposterous, gentlemen, but when I got to the edge of the yard I found that denied dog scratching up fishing worms for me .'" Judge. |