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Tag Archives: Women/All-Ages

Turkey and Partridge.

     A curious partnership is related as existing at Chelsea, Vt., where a turkey and a partridge are sharing a nest. The turkey continues to deposit her egg daily, although the partidge began to set after laying thirteen. During the occupation of the nest by the turkey the partridge attends to feeding.

Dogs.

     A big dog in Paris, Ky., is a friend of drunkards in need. Whenever he sees a staggering man, he sticks to him until home is reached, or watches at the wayfarer’s side if he falls in the gutter.

Pigs.

     A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs with tar to rid them of fleas, and turned them loose in the woods. At night they did not return to the pen as usual, and in the morning he found them stuck together, the tar making them adhere in a mass. They might have gone home, nevertheless, […]

Dog Saves A Big Liner.

The Faithful Animal Warns the Captain Just in Time to Avoid a Collision.      Capt. Granlain, of a big lake liner, boasts of a first class seaman that never leaves the vessel or demands money for his service. This peculiar tar is known as “Bert.” He has no surname, as far as his fellow sailors […]

Deer Steals Man’s Lantern.

Meets Maine Youth on Forest Road and Hooks His Lamp.      James Collins of Isle an Haut, Me., had a thrilling experience with a deer on a recent evening. Mr. Collins is a musician and at 7 o’clock left his home at Moore’s Harbor to go to a dance. When about halfway he saw a […]

Foxes.

     A young fox taken from a litter was placed with a litter of kittens at Watkinsville, Ga., a few days ago. The mother cat at once adopted it, and now evinces a much greater interest in it than in any of the rest of her family.

Sledge-Dogs on Unsafe Ice.

[Exchange.]      Sledge-dogs need no urging with the whip when their instinct informs them that they are on unsafe ice.      They flee onwards at the speed which alone can save and, as was experienced repeatly by Dr. Hayes, instead of keeping the sledges together in a compact body, they diverge and separate, so as […]

A Valuable Cat.

     Howard Reed, of Milford, Pa., started out hunting for partridges and woodcock and was followed by the house cat. All efforts on the part of the young hunter to drive the cat back home was futile; it was bound to go with him, and it illustrated its ability as a hunter by it’s “pointing” […]

How the Ancients Rode Horses.

[Exchange.]      The Greeks and Romans did not know stirrups. The ancients had no saddles like ours, although a Monsieur Ginzrot tries to make out from Julius Caesar and other Roman writers, that they did sometimes employ a kind of frame like a saddle-tree, which was stuffed with wool or cloth, and then covered over […]

A Dog That Could Understand.

[Baptis Weekly]      A sheperd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house where we talking, said to me in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, “I am thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes.” Through he purposely laid no stress on these […]