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Show Burro Served as Guide Tho burro, veritable ship of the Western desert, will live longer without with-out wator and scent It further than any other known animal except tho cnmol. As an example of tho keen scent of tho burro for water, Arthur J. Burdlck rolates, In "Tho Mystic Mid-Region," tho experience or two prospectors, named Peterson nnd Kel-loy. Kel-loy. A fow years ngo they attempted to cross tho Groat Mohave desert on foot, with a burro to carry tholr supplies. sup-plies. In passing from oasis to oasl3 thoy lost tholr way, and the supply of water becamo exhausted. To bo lost In the desert Is a terrible thing, and anxiety, coupled with torturing thirst and tho lntenso heat, drovo Peterson Insane Ho left his companion and fled, shrieking, across tho plain. Kel-ley Kel-ley picketed tho burro and went after Peterson to bring him back, but was unablo to ovcrtako him. Ho returned to the trail to find that his buno hnd broken his tothor nnd was moving across tho desort at a leisurely pace Ho followed, but the animal was so fur In tho lead and ho was so exhausted from his efforts to overtake Peterson that ho could not como up to tho burro. Night camo upon him, nnd it soon becamo so dark that ho could not distinguish dis-tinguish tho burro. Ho had to follow It by tho footprints In tho sand. When It becamo too dark to distinguish tho footprints Kelley still staggered on In sheer desperation. By nnd by his heart gave n great throb. Beforo him, outlined against tho sky and soomlngly suspended in tho nir, was a form which ho know to bo either his burro or an apparition. appari-tion. Ho hurried forward, nnd, lo! standing upon a sharp rlso of ground and facing him was his lost burro! Tho burro seemed to bo awaiting him, for when ho camo up tho animal turned and led tho wny down tho Incline In-cline to a spring of living water. |