Show A Gloucester Hens Queer Family Daniel Parsons who resides on the old Salem road has a curiosity in the shape of a hen which has adopted a litter of five kittens The kittens have but just reached the open eyes period and will follow the hen around the yai A shu diligently > crntch iiig meanwhile for the festive worm or bug is the cose may be which she tenders them its food as she would her chicks When the kittens begin to cry the hen rill tuck them under her wings where they rest perfectly contented Xot being en dowed by nature with the means of feed ing her charge it lias been found necessary to capture the bun and tie her up while the mother cat attends tn her duties in this line At all other times she has full sway being valiant even to blows in the prote tiou of the children of her adoption Cap Ann Breeze |