Springfield [Mass.] Republican.
    Mrs. Augustus Brooks, of East Eliot, Conn., has a cat thirteen years old, which will stand up when ordered, bow quickly or slowly, as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motions of holding a jew’s-harp in her mouth with one paw and playing on it with the other, mew when ordered to speak, kiss her paw to visitors, hold a saucer of milk on her fore legs and lap the milk, and stand on her hind feet and with her fore paws catch bits of bread or meat thrown to her like a base-ball player. Her kitten, a year old, will turn somersaults. The same lady has a hen which always wipes her feet on the mat on entering the house; and, if asked, “How do you get your living, biddy?” will scrratch on the floor, look to see if she has scratched out anything, and then look at the questioner to see if the answer was correct. This hen despises the wooden, chalk, and porcelain cheats which some people palm off on hens for nest-eggs, and will not “lay to” one of them, tumbling them out of her nest as often as they are put in. A rooster, also will scratch the floor when asked how he gets his living, but cannot be made to wipe its feet.
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