Show I 1 f WWW W I 1 I 1 I 1 NATURAL N HISTORY AI f I 1 another kind of cattle 8 13 I 1 driving the cows home Is IB sometimes I 1 an exciting business down in 1 1 maine to judge from rom a story found I 1 tn in our exchanges such things axe are very pleasant afterward 1 jack clark is a stout boy of fourteen f years living at sherman maine i lie he goes after the cows avei every y night I 1 I 1 and drives them home to the ta tie up I 1 always in the greatest safety but the ather night he had an adventure which has baa led to the substitution of his elder 1 brother in the gathering of aba tb kine idne last saturday night jack went down sifter the cattle the animals were la in 1 the pasture and it was aloa almost tark before he got to them he started I 1 them homeward with some speed but 1 one lagged in the shadow under the trees jack threw a stone at the bip up posed cow and got a very large our arise in return he heard the stone strike he e animal with a hollow thump on a its is i s and expected to see the cow clow come from under the trees on a swinging run instead a big moose bount ted out into the opening and nade made for the tha youngster jack knew the animal at once ance boys and girls when they get big enough to walk the streets of sherman in boots and stockings know wild animals when they see them so jack knew the moose he made for the nearest tree and got Int afelt without delay the moose was close at the boys heels when he climbed into the lower branches and snorted around arod the foot of the trunk in a way that made maae the boy shiver and grab the limbs nervously after about an hour the big brute went off in rod long jumps jack came down ran home and told the story atory the smallest dog doe in the tb world the english papers record the death st f a celebrity in the person so to peak of the toy terrier tiny who was reputed to be the smallest dog in the world though tiny was the property of a general sir archibald McL alne he was waa scarcely a war w dog tiny was tour four inches long and could easily curl up and lie down on the hand of a young boy he had however reached adult years ears like most toy tov dots dogs which are really a berver sion ion of nature tiny was a very weak and unpleasant specimen of dog boad he kad had no appetite and could wair aa enough to keep himself alive he died at last of a cold though he was waa dwars scrupulously blanketed when he went out and his master following a custom which is quite general in england had his little body skinned and tufted stuffed and presented it to the zoological museum in london tiny like ike almost all the very smallest of pigmy was of the black and tan terrier bra his small size was not the reuh aux as some people suppose in camm caces of dwarfing dwar fing the creatura crea growth by feeding it on whisky but of selection in breeding A goats abnormal appetite rene clayton clay ton a cigar dealer of philadelphia owns a nanny goat of which he feels proud she is not an especially ornamental animal but has proved herself to be useful one pecullar thing about her is that she has la abnormal appetite for rats and in almost as g as a terrier in keeping the premises free of these pests she enjoys going into the cellars in the neighborhood and soon comes forth with prey in her teeth various complaints have been made to mr clay iton about his troublesome pet A family living a few doors below claytons claytona Clay tons store were eating supper a few even imas ago when suddenly a large lame rat dermed through the room and after it in hot pursuit came the goat As the yet had a good lead it escaped while banny got mixed up in one of the lhing casing room chairs and in its desperate attempt to get free demolished that piece of furniture which mr clayton bad to pay pa for the ani animal I Is now rusticating in the country country |