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Show A TREE-CLIMBING DOG. A government official In Bavaria connected w-lth the Forestry Department Depart-ment has a wonderful dog, which 5s a clever at climbing trees as a cat. If his master fastens a handkerchief up in the tree tops the animal will clamber up after It in the nimblest , way, and never falls to bring it down. ! He was taught by his mother, who was famous as a tree-climber. The clever animal has v on several medals by hlg extraordinary talent, nnd takes particular delight in climbing silver birches not the easiest tree in the world to scale, for the trunk Is particularly par-ticularly smooth and slippery. |