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Show AN INTELLIGENT COAT. llltl Is His Nmna unit 1I Lends Slmeo On H John Dudley, manager of tho sheep jH yards In .Morris, ten n lies west of Kan jH sas City, on the Atchison, Topckn and WM Santa Ko Hallwny, uses n goat as a H bell wether Mint Is known by all the H train crews from the Missouri Hlvcr to H Hill Is the name of the animal, and H he does work that two men nnd a tribe flJ of boys could not perform. If a car of H sheep Is to he unloaded Hill Is sunt In H to lead them out. The door Is opened H mid he crowds Ids way In among the iH blinking sheep. Slowly, nnd without H creating any cNclti'inenl, he makes his , H way along the walls of the car. The H Inquisitive sheep' follow In his wake. JJ Along the side of the car to the end, jH mid along that wnl I he makes his way, H nnd so on until he gets buck to the door, where he miiUes his egress, thn sheep following. Hy hLs leadership a jH procession is formed, und within three H minutes the cm is empty. When it Is B desired to load a car Hill Is sent into the pen. "Co in there, 11111," Is the eommmid gheii. Into the car he goes H and soon both decks are loaded, llrst H one mid then the other. It is o trick to get nut without tin' sheep following. but Hill is "onto" his Job, and at the H proper moment he Jumps thiough a jH narrow opening lei l for him, and an jH attendant quickly shuts the door after jH During tho flood Hill nearly Iosl his iH life. He was put Into the lower deck J of a saep car. The flood was soon up H to that level, aud Mr. Dudley lifted JH him Into the top deck. Still the waters lfl rose. The end of n big log floated Into i the upper deck, where Hill stood up to jH his shoulders lu water, lie thought jH the log was something to walk on and jH he made the venture, only to be tilted ii by his own weight Into the water. iH "(let In there, Hill," commanded his J friend Dudley, who was coming lu a J skiff, und Hill seruiubled back. After- H ward he was taken Into the skiff and carried lo dry land. Kansas City j |