Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — Stories of a Cat and a Hen. [ARTICLE]

Stories of a Cat and a Hen.

Mrs. A. W. Brooks, of East Eliot, Me., has a cat 13 years old, for which he has been vainly offered SSO. This learned pussy will stand up at the word of command, bow slowly or quickly as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motion of holding a jewsharp 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 forelegs and lap the milk, and stand on her hind feet and with her forepaws 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, biddvr’ will scratch on the floor, look to see if she has scratched eut anything, and then look at the questioner to see if the answer is correct. This hen despises the porcelain, wooden and chalk cheats which some people palm off on hens for nest-eggs, tumbling them out of her nest as often as they are put in.