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PE ANIMALS ABLE TO COONT?
tiperkaei of SpDrtimeu in Many Parts of
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U0N8 THAT KEEP TRACK OF THE DAYS
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Dos, mm Elephant til a Croco
dile Conntlear y Moose
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HULL, , Canada, March 29. Hera are
ome storied told by sportsmen who hap
pened to drift Into a discussion of the ques
tion. Can animals count?
"You knew I rot my hound Oecar back
again, didn't youT" said one. "Oh, yes, tt
was true enough about my losing him up
the Gatlneau.
"He never could pass by a fresh deer
track and never knew when It was right
to give up a hunt. I was up above the
Basoatong bridge In the autumn of the
year before last, and when the team came
to bring down my duffle Oscar waa away
cm a bunt
."Last fall I went back to the same camp
at about the same time in the beginning of
October. 'Just on day earlier than last
year, boas,' the1 teamster said as he helped
me put up the tent, long after dark.
"Next morning I waa getting out with
the olter to look up the partridges when
aJl of a audden Oscar, fat and frolicsome,
waa capering about me. Curious, wasn't
ItT
"You know that large farm near the old
lumber depot? I came home that way.
Well, we were Just passing the house when
out Oscar leaped and went playing and
Jumping about a man In Jeans near the
door. I was starting off agin with Oacar
when the farmer roared out:
" 'Say,- where be yon a-taking that 'ere
dorg?'
" 'Home, said I. 'He's mine. Why?"
" 'Only because he's been living along
of me, for about a, year until he lit out one
morning three weeks ago.'
"I made it all right with the farmer after
a bit and showed him that the dog had not
the slightest wish to remain with him, but
had made a convenience of his hospitality
until the time came for hu owner to re
turn. But It bothers me to know how Os
car figured It all out, to content himself
at the farm house until the right day came
to take that thirty-mile trip to meet me on
the old camp ground."
Elephant Kept Coast,
'Don't you think It possible that your dog
kept track of the seasons or of the days?"
said an Anglo-Indian. "Out In India there
waa an elephant battery stationed near my
place.
"There was one elephant which had lost
his regular mahout by death, and until a
proper person could be obtained some of
the underlings attended to him for month
about. Ha waa a grand old beast, having
served through the mutiny, and waa quite
the pet of the battery.
'At last a ounnlng old Hindu gunner
came on to attend to the elephant. It trans
pired afterward that from the. beginning he
cheated his charge out of part of his ra
tions. II drew every day some seventy or
seventy-five chupattlee, or cakes made out
of oltah, a kind of crushed wheat, and kept
half a dosen of them or so to sell to out
siders aa a private graft.
"Old Chubdnah knew It at once and aet
up a fierce screaming, for which In his ig
norance a fool sergeant put him under dis
cipline. After two or three days he kept
quiet Apparently he reasoned It out that
the gunner would only be on for hla four
weeks, aa the others had been, and tt might
be as well to put up with this thing for a
b!
"But on a Monday, when the man began
his second month, and had brought him
his chupattle ration, old Chubdnah knocked
him over with a sidelong blow of his trunk
and then deliberately crushed him under
foot. The other elephant tenders made no
fuse about It as soon as a subordinate ex
plained the mahout's treachery. Of course
he could expect nothing else, they said, for
certainly Chubdnah counld count his cakes
and keep track of the days as well as any
other member of the battery.
."Poor old chap, he was court-martialed
and punished on the same footing, too. It
waa six months' solitary confinement for
him, prison fare, with hard labor piling
teak logs, after regular work was done.
"He got to be as thin as a rake before It
was over. The day after the six months
expired the old fellow pulled up the pegs
be waa tethered to, smashed out of his
Jail, and stumped off gravely as possible
down the lines to his regular quarters. A
young, half grown elephant stood In his
place, but It was only a minute's work for
Chubdnah to full him out and send him
packing. 1
"Then some one brought It to light that
sixteen years before the old rascal had
been sent down for six months, and all the
mahouts agreed that he must have re
membered that fact and kept accurate
count of the days until the same term had
again expired. If an elephant can keep
count that way, why not a dog?"
Moose Reckons Pnrsners.
"Of course, you know a moose can
count?" broke In the doctor. "If ever you
travel on the track of a cuto old bull, you
will notice how he stops now and then, and
looks back to take stock of his pursuers.
"After he haa slsed up the party, he trots
ahead as hard as he can go for. a mile or
so, and then takes a prodigious jump to
one side down the wind. He may on a
slope clear thirty feet. Then he doubles
back a few hundred yards parallel with
the track and lies down till the hunters
have passed.
'There may be a dosen or them, but the
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bull will never move horn or hair until
he has seen every one of them go by. If
one of them should drop out, he will pre
serve a watchful stillness until night
comes.
"My old guide put me up to the trick
and told me that an experienced halfbreed
will get the moose as he noisily rises to get
away when the regular party has passed
on
"There were ten of us after moose at the
Hlbou one falL We made a rule that for
the sake of the guide and to keop ourselves
from utter savagery we would not under
any circumstances take out a gun on Sun
days. We were there for eight weeks, and
during the last three Sundays we sighted
twenty-one moose loafing about.
"Occasionally we got on the tracks of
moose on other days, but all we actually
saw were the seven we killed. You know,
the older guides always say that the moose
keeps track of the Sundays and most of
them have superstitious objections to hunt
ing that day."
Salmon Know Sunday.
"The net salmon fishermen say the same
thing about the salmon," remarked the old
sportsman. "On the Labrador and around
Oaspe way all nets at the mouths of rivers
have to be lifted for the full day every
Sunday.
"It is quite an article of faith down in
those parts that the largest most expe
rienced salmon count the days and start
on their summer Jaunt up streams on Sun
days. I have been taken several times
and shown by these keen-eyed fellows the
great fish lastly coming Into the river after
sundown on Saturday night"
Mngsrera ass Wash Day.
"You remind me of a shooting experience
In the Congo Free State," aald the military
man. "I was stationed for secret observa
tlon service at a large native village on the
banks of a considerable river. I had heard
a good deal of the ravages of crocodiles
among the young women and thought to
occupy my leisure hours In killing the
brutes,
"So I prepared my express rifle, which
used steel-tipped ammunition, and was set
ting out, when I was halted by one of the
head men, who told me It would be na use
going out that day, nor before Tuesday of
the next week. Why Tuesday? I wondered.
"It turned out that every second Tuesday
was cleaning up day, whon every woman
In the place turned out the family linen for
a general wash. All the younger women
slipped into the water up to the waist and
began slapping the soiled and soaked ar
ticles against the projecting rocks, which
Is their way of knocking the dirt out of
them. They kept complete silence during
their operation.
"All of a sudden I saw one of the girls
slip down Into the current, screaming aa
'she disappeared. The others began a hasty
gathering up of the washing and ran
toward the shore, where several little chil
dren were playing about.
"I wondered' what It meant until I saw
the forequarters of a great crocodile rise
out of the water and seise one ef the little
ones, I had my big rifle at hand and
ready, and when another, this time a gray,
almost white, snout came up Just behind
one of the running young women I let him
have it and fortunately got a ball into his
mouth, and I think Into his brain. At any
rate the ugly brute thrashed about a lot
but died at last to two feet of water,
where we easily secured him.
"I found that from years uncounted the
village had bad Ha washing dne every
fifteenth day, and the crocodiles, or mug
gers, as my men used to call them, had
learned to count up the days and come
down stream for these occaalona. Every
time there was an alarm, and generally
some devoured from the band of waahlng
maidens, Etlll, do one dreamt of breaking
through the customs of tho place so far as
to change the time for the wash."
Lions and the Army.
"I remember that In Algiers they used
to take a curious kind of advantage of the
counting powers of the wild beasts," said
the doctor, who saw service In foreign
lands In his early years. "On the first day
of every month a file of soldiers was sent
with dispatches some seventy or eighty
miles to where a detachment of troops was
stationed.
"It was a nasty trip, through a broken
wild country, anyway, and when I was
there it was always men under punishment
for serious offenses who made It. 'A couple
of black-maned lions had found out the
date of the through ma 11 and lay in wait
for it
"These creatures are supposed to prefer
the flesh of Europeans to that of the na
tive Possibly, however. It was the regu
larity of the supply which captivated this
particular pair of handsome brutes.
"Of course, the command having gone
forth from those in command, military
propriety would not permit the data of
the dispatch of mail carriers to be changed.
So every month the linns leaped out,
dragged down one criminal and his horse
and sometimes. Indeed, devoured both of
the soldiers.
"Time and time again expert shots went
out to beat up the murderous Hons. But
they never found them, nor did any one
see them In that section, excepting on the
first or second of the month, when the mall
carriers had got well along on their trips.
"The authorities did not seem to worry
much about It, but kept on sentencing
prisoners to take the fatal trip month after
month. A freshly arrived young officer
would sometimes object and volunteer to
clear the road of the blnck-manod mur
derers. More than one was lost while
acting as substitutes for the carriers, and
the Hons usually escaped through their
cunning and agility.
"Once one of them was killed by a cor
poral Who followed behind the two post
men. But by the next month the survivor
had found another mate and when I left
the precious pair were adding a French
soldier to each monthly ration with fair
regularity.
"No one there ever doubted the reckon
ing power Of the lions; In fact I fancy
that most animals, like the migratory birds,
have a very fair Idea of time and probably
know much more about keeping count than
we have any idea of."
Its Orlsrln Unknown.
"What is the origin of the "cock and bull"
story? It is the despair of all those who
seek to explain this fine old crusted slang
of long ago which haa managed to persist
Into present speech, Just as we may imagine
our present "23" will puzzle a later gen
eration. Brewer, In hla "Phrase and
Fable," explains It Is a corruption of a
"concocted and bully story." Evidently
recognizing that this Is scarcely satisfac
tory, he prosecuted his researches Into by
gone religions, dragged up Nergal from the
Phoenicians In the representation of a
rooster and from the Egyptian Osiris, typi
fied by a bull. From all of which disquisi
tions it Is as clear as may be that no one
really knows anything about the story of a
cock and a bull. The French have a
precisely similar expression In cog-a-l'ane,
and equally they do not know Its origin.
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