Show friendship A STRANGE ONE cat and duck are chums according to a story that conies tron england we have had the usual crop of curl as to nesting places and strange families adopted by birds and animals but nothing more diverting than a 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 down in amity how the cat tolerates the wet feath ers of its comrade is a mystery but there they lie the duck with one of its wings spread as a shield over the cat the tall of the latter 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 tte air the idyl lasts and all local life wonders |