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Show Canine Intelligence "You can't overestimate the intelligence intelli-gence of a dog," declared Col. Spois-wood Spois-wood Telfair, of Mo mtain View, gazing gaz-ing reininisceniiy at his favorite hound engaged in snapping feebly at the pestiferous pes-tiferous files. "When Towser was In his prime he liar! an uncanny way of knowing in advance ad-vance the sort of garv.e I was going to hunt. For instance, if I left the house 'nrryhig a ritle 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 ruzzle the old ruseal, so I took down my (iching pole :ind started to the river. It may sound preposterous, gentlemen, but when I got to the edge of the yard I found that derned dog scratching up fishing worms for me!" Judge. |