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Show Curiosity of Birds. Blids, however wary, are curious, and will approach a it range object at the risk of their lives, as wild fowl shooters know. A slngulsr Instance of curiosity Is now reported of a goose In a small vlllajs of tba Duchy of Baden. When the "garde-champetre" rang his bell snd read his decrees to the assembled pnsssnts, a white and blaek goose, eccentric by Its Intelligence, Intelli-gence, perhaps a goose of genius, left the flock and planted Itself before bim, snd listened with lofty and solemn stare peculiar to geese, human or otherwise. When tho crlur moved on the goose followed, snd only returned to Its companions after the rouud was luado. it continued this attention for soma months. London tilubo. |