Animal Anecdotes 
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“Some unsuspecting fowl put its head inside, and was quickly dispatched by the crafty fox.” 
A Fox which was kept as a pet in a cage devised 
the following plan by which to 
augment his breakfast table. 
Close by the bars of his den 
several chickens enjoyed a greater freedom 
than he was allowed. Reynard, more probably 
from motives of greed than of jealousy, determined 
to reduce the fowls in number. Accordingly 
he placed a morsel of his own meat near the 
bars of the cage, and well within reach of the 
chickens. He then laid down, apparently to 
sleep, and awaited developments, with the result 
that some unsuspecting fowl, scenting a tit-bit, 
put its head inside and was quickly dispatched 
by the crafty fox. 
The Device 
of the Fox. 
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Iv is very uncommon for herons to get into 
mid-ocean, but it is recorded that 
two of these birds flew into the 
rigging of a British steamship 
when she was half-way across the Atlantic. One 
of them broke its wing by striking against a 
yardarm. It fell to the deck, was picked up by 
an officer of the ship, and placed in an improvised 
case. Its mate steadfastly hovered over the 
ship until finally the door of the cage was 
opened. Instantly the second heron flew from 
A Faithful 
Mate. 
the rigging and entered the cage, where it 
remained, a willing prisoner, with the disabled bird. 
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Minuions of butterflies are eaten every year by 
the Australian aborigines. The 
insects congregate in vast quan- 
tities on the rocks of the Bugong 
Mountains, and the natives secure them by 
lindling fires of damp wood and thus suffocating 
them. Then they are gathered in baskets, baked, 
sifted to remove the wings, and finally pressed 
into cakes. 
A Curious 
Dish. 
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A cERTAIN farmer possessed a donkey which 
had a great fondness for apples. 
Turning it out one day to graze 
in an orchard, he first tied the 
halter to its fore-feet in order to prevent it 
lifting its head to the fruit on the trees. The 
donkey, however, managed to get at the fruit 
by backing at the trees and kicking furiously at 
their trunks till some apples were shaken down. 
But at last, in kickmg a twisted trunk, it wedged 
one of its hoofs so firmly into a fork of the tree 
that it was unable to drag it out, and had to 
stand on its fore-feet, with its hind-legs in the 
air, until its master cut it loose. 
A Little Too 
Clever. 
