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until long after dark. Then the men examined them to see if they 

 had any hair in their teeth, but there was none. 



The lawyer claimed that the dogs were no good; that the deer 

 was lying dead only a few hundred yards back in the woods ; that 

 the dogs had run by the carcass without seeing it and had been 

 rambling ever since. 



The homesteader did not want to offend him, but after the lawyer 

 left the room, the old homesteader said to the "sports," 



' ' If that 'ere gol dam lawyer friend 'o youm thinks he knows 

 mor'n my dogs hes damdly mistakened." 



And the fun of it is that the dogs did know more than the 

 lawyer about that sort of thing. The deer had not been shot 

 through the lungs, and it ran clear out of the country. The dogs 

 had finally lost him and came home to get their dinner, and had no 

 trouble in finding the way home. 



So much for the homing sense. 



Now let us consider the opposite faculty. 



If you have ever been unfortunate enough to travel in the 

 south, and to have your horse lie down and die on the road, you 

 have, within a few minutes, seen the carcass literally covered with 

 buzzards, and the air full of them all around. Where did they 

 come from? And how did they know there was fresh meat 

 there? You may have been traveling over a flat, open country, 

 perhaps a great savanna, without a tree in sight, and so there was 

 probably not a buzzard in sight. Some of these birds probably 

 came from lo miles away, or may be 20. They came in a bee line, 

 and with almost the speed of an arrow shot from a bow. They 

 could not have seen or smelled the animal that far. "They jest 

 knew it was there, that's all." 



I have killed an antelope on the plains, 20 miles from the nearest 

 tree, and before I could get it dressed there would be perhaps 

 25 mapgies flapping and squaking about, in a great rush to get at 

 the fresh meat. Magpies do not frequent the open prairies. They 

 live along the streams and coulees where there are trees, or at least 

 brush on which they can perch. How did they know there was 

 fresh meat there? Did they see it from all these miles away? 

 No. Did they smell it from all these miles away ? No. Did they 

 hear the report of my rifle, all these miles? No, they could not 

 possibly hear that more than a mile, admitting that their ears are 

 twice as good as ours. Then how did they know? Their sixth 

 sense told them. 



