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Show The Brave Partridge. When Dr. John Rae was exploring In the Arctic regions he went one day for a walk along with one of his erew. They met with a hen partridge and her chickens. As soon as she saw Dr. Rae and his companions she tried to turn their attention away from her young. She ran around them, over their feet and under their feet, striking strik-ing at their hands ' vigorously when they attempted .o catch a chicken. She even took no care of herself and allowed them to make her prisoner, so that her young ones might not b molested. -The moment she was set free she began to attack the two men . again, and kept up the onslaught so bravely and so perseverlngly that they were at length, glad to leave the devoted de-voted mother mistress of the field. , |