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Show CAninOU BRATS OnSYHOUND. laVtrMtlac TmI of Spot Oi lnw la Maine VTooai. A man lately returned from the woods says that a caribou can run faster than any other animal on legs. He says, according to a Boston correspondent cor-respondent In the New York Sun: 1 have a friend who owna a greyhound, and he always maintained that no animal an-imal could outrun the dog at least, he thought so until lately, when ha stood by and saw the fleet dog run off his feel by a heftl of caribou that didn't seem to be in much of a hurry, ther. One day this friend of mine w bragging about the dog to an old wool, guide, when the latter said thai ho couj find an animal that would leave th, bound so far behind that h would thik ho was anchored. This, touched my friend In a sensitive spot, and a wager t( 10 was made on a race between the bumd and the first carli bou we came cross. Finally th guide succeeded In vetting the dog ad ter some caribou, a hud of four, fount standing like so many statues on th! Ice In the middle of one of the bis, ponds of tho Penobscot west branch; region. You know a caribou trots In stead of running like most wild animals. ani-mals. There had been a good fall o( snow, a light rain which formed a thick crust and then about three Inches Inch-es more of snow. The dog went aftee them like a wild locomotive, and tha caribou started. At first they didn't appear to be going very fast, but as the hound drew up to them they let out a link. The hound was running his prettiest, and before the caribou had had time to think he was right up on them. Then they put on steam, and It was a sight to seo them go. Why, when they struck their gait they pulled away from that dog as though ho had been anchored, and by the time they had reached the end of the pond the hound wasn't half way across. When tho dog came back bo was sadder sad-der and wiser, and his master looked dated. To bo sure, a greyhound Is fast, but when you come to staok greyhounds or any other kind of hounds against caribou you aro In too fast a game sure. |
