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gunpowder and dynamite, being attracted by the 

 salts they contain. Shortly afterwards I learned that 

 the summer preceding a near neighbour had lost two 

 of his young heifers in some mysterious way, and that 

 both, when opened after death, were distinctly black 

 inside, evidently from devouring gunpowder. Then, 

 a little later, we read in the local paper that a rancher 

 about fifty miles away had had no fewer than fifteen 

 young cattle killed through eating dynamite, and that 

 another man had lost seven from the same cause. 

 The salts in the compound were evidently the 

 temptation. 



