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A Horse's Intelligence

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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i uur correspondent met a gentleman yesterday who gives the following account of a most singular evidence of intelligence on the part of a horse belonging to K. L. Moore of this parish. The horse's name is Dixie, and Moore raised him from a colt and is much attached to the animaL During the spring of 1894 Dixie's knee was hurt whilo employed in repairing levees, and for some weeks thereafter he was not able to work at all and was allowed to run loose in the pasture and abont the place. One moming, whon the hands were all in the fields at work and Moore himself was riding after them, they heard a violent ringing of the big plantution bell back at the house. Thinking something dreadful had happpeued to nis wife ar children perhape, Moore put ppurs to his horae, and calling to the hands to follow galloped up (o the houso. When ho got rliere, he fonnd Mra Moore and the ohildren safe aud sotmd anti very much amused at oíd D ae, wlio had managed to open the yard gate and was puiling on tko bell ropo liko a crazy thin.iT. All Üieir efforts to drive the horsfeontiuued to ring the bell more loi Mo' i eet tliat Dixie might kuow what he was aboat, ufter all, and wout out to investígate. Wlien the horse saw his master, ho let go the bell rope and r&u off toward the pasture, looking back aad tossing his head at every step, as if to say, "Come on!" Moore soon saw that someLhing unnsual had occurred and followed after Dixie as rast as lie could. The horse made straight for the levee at the lower end of the pasture and stopped short under a big cottomvood tree. When Moore came np, what was his astonishment to see a little break in the levee, with the water trickling through. Quickly summoning the hands, the breach was soon healed. Bnt for Dixie's timely waming, however, the levee would have gone and the whole place would have been

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Ann Arbor Argus
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