Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     The Boston Journal Says;-We can vouch for the truth of the following; A friend who keeps poultry, had two hens which insisted upon sitting upon one nest. The result was not altogether favorable, although, after a while, the bipeds managed to divide the eggs. Only one chicken was hatched from the whole nest full. Both hens undertook the duties of mother to this chicken, and were quite motherly for about a week, when both took it into their heads to go to roost at night, utterly regardless of the loud “peep! peep!” of the chicken, which could not follow them. The little fellow managed to fly upon the top of a barrel, where, curious enough, the old cock-the head of the family-took compassion upon him, and roosting upon the barrel sheltered him under his wing. This he now does nightly, the hens taking care of the chick in the day time.