HABITS OF ANIMALS.
A fly on a window-pane will crawl to the top, fly back to the bottom, and crawl up again. This order is seldom reversed. It is on record that a fly crawled up a window pane thirtytwo times, returning each time to the same place. Hens always scratch for food with the sun behind them, the reason being that the rays show up minute particles. A blind Hen will pick grain and noi> miss a kernel. Cats seldom lie with their feet to the fire, and usually lie on the left side. Dogs lie with their forepaws to the fire. A mouse will ignore a food supply sufficient for a meal, and run great risks to nibble at a large supply. Goldfish usually swim round a globe to the right. They can be taught to take a fly out of the hand in six weeks. Sheep spend more time grazing "than do cattle and horses, and they will eat for 12 hours out of 24.
For all the several gems of virtue, vice hath counterfeit stones wherewith she gulls the ignorant.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 August 1912, Page 7
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