Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — Ribbit Hatched Them. [ARTICLE]

Ribbit Hatched Them.

From London comes a story of a rabbit teat hatched doves’ eggs and thtfs became the proud foster mother of two little squabs. The rabbit'was captured while very young and put among the doves because there seemed no better place for it at the time. It at once made friends with Its feathered compontons and for some reason or another Insisted upon getting Into one of the nests. So the sitting dove let the rabbit attend to the Incubation of her eggs, but after the young doves came the mother bird again assumed control and attended to feeding them.