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Show STRANGE SENSE OF DIRECTION. Dops arifl fats Sonictimcs Display Aston. i:liiiiK (t'Ogfrapiiical Knowledge. lien living- near Neosho Falls, 'van., a neighbor, who was a market hinl iiunter. west from there to western .ii i:;'V)uri for the purpose of hunting ijnaiia and prairie hiekens in the fall t tne vear." says a writer in Scienee. le took with him a favorite pointei coy. 1 he route taken was southward some fifty miles to Parsons, Kan., by railroad thence northeastward to Fort N-oit and on into Missouri, nearly due oa.si from the latter point. All went vt-rv well for a few days after he began i! u it lii i. but by some means the dog 1 s from him. He spent two lavs huniing it, and as it was no use to ii-y to hunt without the dog he went ;ioijie and there found the dog all right. A'jf-or;;inr to the report of his family tne;ion-had reached there within two av:i from the time he had lost him, and as tne distance was more than .seventy-five miles it is quite certain mat tho oust took a near cut for home. -o-.v, if this dog had no sense of directum direc-tum what had he that led him to take wnat we mav confidently believe to be the straight and true course for home wnen he had passed over the other two I f tl c tri'ingle by rail? Who does not know th;Tl cat, or even a half-iv- kitten, taken a long way from lome in a bag. nearly always finds its 1 1 ? When living in northern .i . nian I had a eat we tired of. I took .ur in u boat directly across the lake, i;: at two miles, and turned her loose. i ' no:i!,rh it was about six miles around :u- enci of t;ie lake, a circuitous course, ! v one unknown to her by ;r.it. tiio next morning she was back 11 1 "',-e. Another case is related ;o me of a cut that was taken by rail 1 v twenty miles in southwest Mis--oun. and tne next day he walked in all ru-:it at lus former home." |