QUEER CONVEYANCES. 



OuE little ones in the country may have smiled to see a chicken 

 mounted on the old hen's back while she sat sunning herself in 

 the yard. Perhaps the young thing with few feathers sang a soft 

 " Cree-cree," to tell that he enjoyed his position. At night he would 

 like better to be brooded under the mother's wings. 



"When Biddy got upon her feet and went marching on, otf tumbled 

 chick. !N^ow he must use his own legs or be left behind. Those 

 bits of legs may well be weary sometimes with long journeys 

 about the farm. 



