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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13109, 18 May 1911, Page 2

A Scottish farmer, when going to market, it was observed, always took a hen with him in his trap. The roason was never known until one day he took a friend with him on a drive. Every place the farmer stopped hcv put the nosebag on his horse, and then the hen was so trained that what dropped from the horse's bag the hen would pick up, so there was nothing wasted.

A correspondent of the ''Standard" relates a story of a cat which lived in the kitchen garden. One day the animal seemed distressed, and was mewing to the cook, evidently wishing her to follow it. Finally, the cat led the way down the garden path to a spot where another cat had been caught in a rabbit trap. The same correspondent also tells of a cat so devoted to its owner that when she was ill it refused food and lay on the mat outside her door; and "when she was better, and was on the sofa, came and] offered her small birds,"