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Show A Wooden Lrggrd Cow. j la an animat e hospital lit the Hunt Knd of loudon there ure to be aeen many curious four-footed Inmatei who ara in dlRereut stages of convalescence and our llluatrntlon la luken frum a photo of a valuable cow which recently had cine of tta four legs amputated The quadruped la ahown with an In- gantouMly made log of wood, whirl, .n, been nHlxi'il In pi tire of tht nilMhhiK nieinbtjr. It wua (.l.initc.it at II r tit Unit tha row would lmv to hi killed, bn 1 tha Injury to Ita h wua n ffrlju one, i but the owner Ih-kk'U lint rvery i'(Tort lulKht bo uuul to anve Ua lift. ( j Jehaay oo the Hver. The beaver In an aiilniiil wi.a alinrp I It luhuhlta watery pUcea, and la very r fond of lla young, of which It uaimlly I haa aeverul. The beaver la very ttiilua- i tiioua, and aiiiulrex great Hklll In the j ' uae of Ita tall, with whL-h It plaHteia 1 Ita dwolltiiKK. The way a beaver up- eratea la aa followa: It (electa a Inrite , tree growing on the bank of a brook or aome almllar atreimi. and theu It ' gnawa the tree till It fnlla nrro.a the treuin. thtm foniiliig a dam. It la not : wrong to aay dam when you are apeak- i Ing of beavers we ahonld never indulge in-dulge In profane awearlng If we can avoid It. We should ever remember the mona we learned at tha knee of our dear parenta when we were little, but a lieaver dam la far different. When my grandfather wa a boy he went In s hool where there waa nothing noth-ing but prairie, and the hoye whispered whis-pered beiause the teacher could not And any switches and had a boll on his hand One day the te.icher took a dried beaver's tall out of hla desk and pinked pink-ed the while school with It. and It didn't leave a mark on the beaver s tall, but there never was any more whispering. My grandfithcr la blind In one eye, but his memory Is good. The heaver la becoming very scarce, and you have to go to the Field Museum Mu-seum to see one now. Johnny. |