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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
when the nightjar, for instance, is leav
ing Africa for England, it begins its
homeward journey by going due north.
Now, it does not follow that any
nightjar ever intentionally flew straight
from Africa to England.
He may easily make a mistake and
find himself in France. But France,
being just as suitable to him, decides
the question, and he may drop down in
the woods near Paris.
In short, the homing instinct in mi
grating birds consists of their wonderful
ability in detecting changes in climate
and direction of the compass, for their
"home"' may cover a large area. The
rest is all done by landmarks.
Most animals, such as the fox, the
wolf and the rabbit find their way back
to their lairs by a combination of sight,
memory and smell. The fox could smell
his way home if he was suddenly struck
blind.
But there are extraordinary instances
of cats, dogs and pigeons traveling over
vast distances where it seems impossible
for either sight or scent to be of much
use. For instance, a terrier sent to a
new home in Birmingham, returned on
foot to its old master in High Wycombe,
a distance of nearly 100 miles. And a
collie sent from a town in Oxfordshire to
Leeds turned up three or four days later
in Oxfordshire, having "tramped"
through four counties over a distance of
200 miles.
In all instances like these memory and
sight are of hardly any ue except in the
immediate neighborhood of "home." Of
what service can their sense of smell be
either, when the track they traverse is
new and strange?
It is the same with homing pigeons.
And we are forced to conclude that some
animals possess the sense of direction so
highly developed that, no matter how or
where they are taken, they are able to
retrace their steps as though they had
left trails behind them like the silk trail
of a caterpillar.
The little Goat' Trick
One day a very hungry wolf pounced
down upon a little goat and was just
about to make a meal of him when the
goat cried out :
"Wait a minute ' I have something to
say ! "
"What is it? " asked the wolf.
"If you will let me go and not eat me,
a3 you intended to do," said the goat,
"I'll tell you where there are more goats
than you have teeth in your mouth."
"My, my," exclaimed the wolf, smack
ing his lips, "I'll agree to that."
"Well," declared the goat, "If you run
up to the top of yonder mountain you'll
see the goats on the other side, and I am
sure there are more there than you could
eat in a month."
So the wolf ran off up the side of the
mountain, but the farther he ran the
higher the mountain seemed, and it was
a very long time before he reached the
top, tired and footsore and out of breath
and more hungry than he had been be
fore. And what do you think was the first
thing he saw? A herd of goats. There
must have been 200 of them. They
were grazing peacefully on a broad plain
on the other side of the mountain.
But what else do you suppose ? Why,
the other side of the mountain was per
fectly straight up and down, just like
the walls of this room, only as high as
fifty houses placed on top of each other,
and at the foot of this steep cliff was a
broad river that was as swift as an ocean
current. Then it was on the other side
of this stream that the plain lay upon
which the goats were feeding. It was
impossible for the wolf to get to them.
"That little goat has played me a
trick," said the wolf sorrowfully.
Primal Acroatic
This acrostic contains eight words of
five letters each. If the words are right
ly guessed and written one below an
other, their initiil letters will spell the
name of a game much played by col
lege boys in the fall. The cross words
are: 1. Something we walk on. 2. A col
or. 3. A musical instrument. 4. Some
thing attached to a lady's gown. 5. The
condition of a cold, barren hillside. 6.
Something belonging to a church. 7. A
place where golf is played. 8. That
which comes every morning.
ChriMtmas Eve and Christina morning:
One night when I was on my way to sleep
I heard the sleigh-bells jingling in the street;
I heard Old Santa" walking
I heard him and Mother dear talking;
And there by my bureau the stocking they hung
And down on the sofa the toys they flung;
And then in a minute he put down the tree
Before you could even count one, two, three;
And there was a great big doll, yes there was,
And her hair was a great big fuzzy fuzz ;
And there was a little doll-carriage, too,
Oh ! everything nice for me to do ;
And the tree was covered with balls and a horn
For that was the day that Christ was born;
The Christmas tree was shining white
For it was all fall of candle light;
I had a beautiful painting-book
And I peered in every little nook.
Clarissa Metcalf
(In Pinehurst, N. C, this story truly happened
on December 25, 1909, when I was 5 1-4 years old)
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