Show I 1 ferret as foster mother I 1 A preston eng correspondent re ports an extraordinary incident of an imal life twelve months ago a farm laborer 11 vine in the neighborhood found a nest of young wild rabbits and threw them to a couple of ferrets one of which was expecting a family three of the little creatures were am mediately dispatched but the fourth was discovered a few days later nest ling up to the ferret which had clear ly adopted it the ferret was em aloyed at its usual work of rat and rabbit hunting but the attachment thus strangely begun continued till when the lid of the box being left open the rabbit now full grown es to its native burrows two days later it was found struggling to enter the hutch and rejoin its foster parent the door was opened to it and to the laborer s astonishment the ferret welcomed her lost compan ion with the liveliest tokens of delight and satisfaction |