Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — The Bantam Grandmother. [ARTICLE]

The Bantam Grandmother.

Ordinarily a new-born chicken will follow any hen, and any hen will cluck and scratch for any new-born chick, if not over a day or two old, but not so with five little bantams recently hatched in Justice Poe’s hennery. His little boy, Harry, possessed a very beautiful little bantam hen, which was prized for its beauty and gracefulness, but no sooner had she served her time on the nest, and came strutting forth with five little beauties, then her worldly existence came to an end.

In this dilemma Harry tried to get another hen to be tender and true to the little orphans, but it remained for the grandmother of the orphans to assume this responsibility. The grandmother herself was on a nest and trying to raise another brood, but readily gave up the prospects and began to care for her grandchildren, and shows unusual affection and sympathy for the orphans. — Atlanta Cons tit u lion.