The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-11-11
Stories About Animals,

A gray horse used by the st. Louis
Transfer Company IN one OF its teams Is an
habitual tobacco chewer,
A terrier dog at Amerlcus, Ga, has for
saken his home and taken up his lot with
herd Of goats, refusing to associate with
other CANNES.
Jealousy recently induced large Berlin
dog to attack a tiveyear.old boy. The
boy was pettlng new lap dog when the
big dog jumped upon him and threw him
down. The lap dog, gong to the boys as
sistance, was killed.
a novel fight occurred in stable in
Council Bluffs between a stallion and a
bulldog. The fight lasted more than an
hour, and was so furious that no one dared
enter to interfere. After fatally bruising
the dog the horse threw it outside the stall
with its teeth.
w. 3. f. Daniel, of Dublin, Ga, was
deer hunting recently. His dog caught a
the doe came to the rescue He dropped
the fswn to catch the mother, but after
desperate struggle she slipped from his
grasp and got away.
A lady at Branchville, N. j., one day fed
common brook turtle that had approach
ed her door. Thereafter the turtle paid
frequent visits This season the animal
brought mate with It, and the two make
frequent excursions from the brook to the
mousse to obtain food.
A fight between toad and large black
spider was recently witnessed at Merrick
IL. |. After each round the toad hoped tc
plantain leaf, bit of piece, and then re
turned to the fray After this had occurred
several times the leaf was taken away, and
the toad, failing to find the Leaf, soon rolled
over and died.
The distasteful ofT Of cqafWnd2 that {
Virginia lady had placed under the eave'
of the porch as dlsiniectant drove away {
wren that had just gone to Housekeeping
For some days the bird and her mate were
observed to be very busy, and it was soor
discovered that they had moved thel
nest, twig by twig, to the other side of thu
portico.
At q wayslde Inn in the south of France
is roasting jack moved by animal power
Two dogs turn the machine, working al
ternately. One day the dog whose proper
turn 1t was being absent, the other was
caught and put on the wheel. He fatty
refused, however, to work, and neither
coaXlDg, threats nor Establishments pro-
duced any effect After some delay the
missing dog was found and set to the task
After lie had nearly completed the Job, ht
was released and the first tried again. anC
the animal so lately reCusant now Offered
no opposition, and made the wheel revolvt
with hearty good will till the roast wa;
| finished.
The blue jay is the boldest and most mis-
chievous of wild birds. Near Knoxville
Tenn, recently one was seen to fly mum
Der of times to high picket fence to at
tract pair of kittens playing on the lawn
The kittens finally mounted the fence, and
began cautious approach from picket to
picket The jay let the first get within
eighteen inches, then hoped over between
the two. The second kitten approached
the bird hoped over it. 1t turned, and the
Lay hoped back and between. The first
kitten approached, and the jay hoped
back over it, and 50 kept it up till one kit.
ten got Glsgusted and left, and the other
followed soon after. Once or twice after
the jay tried to inveigle the kittens to an.
other frollc, but failed.
Abe Simmons, of ROsendale, n. V, has
wonderful dog named Jack. Jack used
to toss a silver piece placed upon his nose,
and turn around and catch it IN his mouth,
but some one put hot penny on his nose
one day, and that spoiled the trick In the
winter time he is the dread OF all the
school children who have sleighs, for he
will rush out when boy is going along,
grab the rope of the sleigh, pull it loose
tr,, In LA, "a x,I g.,
he can go. Finally the boys combined
against him. When Jack decides that he
wants a sleigh they let him have the rope,
but five or six boys jump on the sleigh,
and Jack very soon tires of drawing them
Jack, when cork is thrown up in the air,
will jump up turn summerSault and
catch 1t in his mouth.
An interesting account of the aficctlonate
attentions of a hen for a brood of kittens Is
given in the Scotsman. In two adjoining
nests, In loft, in TaylnlOan Inn, Kintyre,
were five kittens and "A setting hen. A day
or two after the kittens were born the hen
removed from the nest IN which she was
ana took possession of them, but the cat
removed the kittens from the loft to a.
small enclosure IN another house. The
htb SUM Ibhllu Oul Nllt i'lt'' ~ WHICH ltI
adopted family had been carried, and took
to nursing them as before. On this an un
derstandiug was come 10 hatween the real
and the foster mother. The hen allowed
the cat to come at intervals and nurse
them. The hen has never left the kittens
but devOtes to them her whole time, and
has always trusted To food being brought
to her She takes them under her wings,
clrcks to them, and works about them
with her bill, and now, when they are be
ginning to move about, she permits them
to climb on her and amuse themselves, as
kittens will. On the other hand the kit
tens return 10 the hen with the greatest
fondness, and seem to regard their real
mother as nothing more than creature toI
supply them with food.
A traveller, being at a coffee house with
some gentlemen, was largely drawing onl
the credullty OF the company. "Wherel
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