SPECKLE, THE HEN.
Are hens stupid? The general belief is that they are duller than most animals and birds. At any rate they contrive as often as not to run into danger than out of it. But an English farmer has an old bantam hen that is distinctly clever. Her name is Speckle. She chooses to live by herself rather fh«.Ti with other hens, and prefers to retire toward nightfall into a hut apart. But the door is sometimes closed. Then, says our correspondent, she has been known to return to the house, fly to a window-ledge, and peck at the window until she attracts notice, and thai lead the way to the closed door.
The fact that she is a favourite and J very tame may account for her know--1 ledge of human helpfulness.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 53, 4 March 1931, Page 16
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