Show friendship A STRANGE ONE cat and duck are chuma chums according to a story that comes from front england englad we have had the usual crop of curt as to nesting places and strange families adopted by birds and animals but nothing more diverting than a tel fel howship which exists between a tain ample mouser and a duck of gooselike proportions puss waits by the side of the pond in which the duck takes its bath then the two retire in company to the shade of the trees and lie ile down in amity how H ow the t h e cat tolerates the wet feathers of its comrade Is a mystery but there they lie ile the duck with one of its wings spread as a shield over the cat the tall of the lafar curled like a very smart boa about the neck of its feathered friend so long as the worm keeps beneath the turf and songsters do not stoop too low in the air the idyl lasts and all local life wonders |