Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-28
oGaGBTaIuo ron 708 LITTLE
FOLKS.
YLlTTER.


thouxb sbs might be the very commonest
kind Of bird bat sEe vs far from being
ihss. - yos viii zee.
One morning, Teddy Barker, the miIIsr's
boy, said To his father Have you noticed
The dove that ,its up On the beams !. the
horse-shed. or flies sfosnd there ali day?
shes been there for quite a sbils.T
~ ssv one The other day" returned Mr..
Barker. II threw her out a handful Of
grain. Hasn't she gone ystf'
NO" ssh Teddy. II wouldn't wonGsr
IL she had come to stay. II IL getting 10 be
pretty cold weather for her to PICK up things.
! am going 10 feed her now
II vouLi, said Mr.. Barker. lie vas
kind-heatld man, ard he new ~hAt . good
thing it vas for . tsp-year-oid boy 70 have
morning and night
One day. he came 10 and said, Father.
I've got name for that dove
What 10 ity'
You see, when 10 out TO feed her. she
comes down so pretty. She doesn't fly real
", and che doesn't futter. She sort O fn-
feys I'm going to cali her FILTER
IAN right" said his father. II used to
have dove when vss boy, and ! called
IL Pete"
I'm not going to call my dove Pete" re-
joined Teddy. Indignantly. "You might
cali q bulldog Pete. hat don't think rs
nice name for q soft, little. gentle dove
Nov FILTER sounds just like her"
IAN right" said Mr.. Ksrker. laughing.
10 FILTER che vss.
II vss In early December when Teddy
first spied the dove. His father vas build
ing nice new ben-houss close BY the mill
When it vas haIshed. the hens nocked into
IL gladly They hal had only a rough shell
ter before. and The weather vas groriog very
cold
"Fsthsy," said Teddy one evening. cit.
going To freeze like everything To night
believe m put Filter into III. hen. hopse,
"Ths.'s q good td4a, his father respond
cd. 'She might q. veil stay there when
ever she likes There's plenty Of room"
So Teddy introduced FILTER into the hem
house She gsxed about her new home
With bright. pleased eyes that is, Teddy
said they looked pleased Tn. hens, how
ever. did not seem TO welcome her very
gladly. For several days they made poor
little Filters life miserable by pecking At
her, and csekiing all sorts Of ugly noises at
her; but she showed no sort Of resentment
when she was attacked She merely Hs~
out Of the way very softly until the naughty
hens Gained down Then she would take
her place among them again with sweet
confidence. which after q little seemed to
diasrm their wrath.
Before Filter had been an inmate Of the
hen house two weeks there WAS not a fowl
In u which did not seen glad 10 have III"
little dove sette down beside her AZ night.
~ dear httle FILTER hsd understood The New
Testament. she could not have followed its
precepts more closely.
One day, Teddy came running into the
mill In great excitement ZONE = he
called to MS fsthrf. Come quick
MI Barker could leave - well AS not. so
he followed Teddy to the yard OF the hen
house. where there sere two hens lighting IN
the most vicious Fhtter was on perch
Just above the comba'antr and evidently in
great distress She huttereh about wildly,
and uttered little heari-broaken means Fl
nslly she filtered gently through the air,
landing right between The angry fighters
There, whispered Teddy. that's just
what sh" did when ran IN to get you
vas In hopes she could do 1t again, for saw
the hens wouldn't stop then Nov how do
you suppss" little BIT OF dove Ike her
darcs To get right in between those great cross
hensf ! should think she wonid be too
scared"
Mr., Bsfk'r sboos his head rs beyond
me. he said
The hens would not hurt their little friend
on any accoun', and prese tly the. fight
stopped
live heard Of the dove Of peace. and all
that" declared the good miller afterward, in
describing he scene TO one of the neighbors
but didn't suppose love' were really so
much ipcliasd that way This one 8 though.
After 'hrt Teddy watched the dove more
closely tina ever. and ran rhenever he heard
the noise of battle in the hcn-ysrd. lie
found that IL was part Of the regular pro-
srsmme for the dove to Interfere in all the
fgh that went on there. Teddy saw her
brcsk mp many aud many a petty squabhle
Just N she had broken up the one which he
ha, called h.. father out 10 see
The spring came on The flock Of hen.
had been considerably thinned ont to supply
the good millers table, AMI now he bought
new supply from among hi. neighbors. Like
their predecessors. these hens seemed 10 re-
gard little Filter At first As an interloper. and
treated her very unkindv; but she won them
over Just As she hal won over the others. by
the unifrom gen,lcness with which she treated
them. No Quaker in his yarb of drab wa.
ever a NOR. determined apostle of peace and
fraternity than was the little dove-colored
dove.
One morning In the early summer. one of
the neighbor. came over TO the mill and said
10 Mr.. Baker. There's some ,ort of a
creature killing III, hens around her. Nv