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Show Curiosity of Birds. Birds, however wary, are curious, and will approach a strange object at the risk ot their lives, aa wild-fowl shooters know. A singular instance ot curiosity Is now reported of a goose In a small village of the Duchy of Badon. When tho "garde-cbampetro" rang his boll and read his decrees to tho assembled peasants, a white and black goose, eccentric by its Intelligence, Intelli-gence, perhaps a goose of genius, left tho flock and planted Itself before him, and listened with lofty and solemn stare peculiar to geese, human or otherwise. When tho crier moved on the gooBe followed, nnd only returned to Ita companions nftcr tho round was made. It continued this attention for some months. London Globe. |