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Mar. 27 Out for a Walk?: The kittens are three weeks old now and they are getting a big adventurous, but Henrietta doesn't let them go far without she's there to see they don't come to any harm. Fur and Feather bled together. Hen does Kitten Sitting for mother cat.: Occasionally Mother nature plays strange ricks and provides an exception to the rule that fur and feather don't get on. It's one of these phenomenous which has provided the main topic of conversations among the inhabitants of the pretty village of Well-next-Sea, Norfolk. In the corner of a local corn merchant's yard a cat gave birth to five pretty little kittens. Mother cat earns her keep by catching mice in the yard and her zeal for the job is keeper than her maternal instincts and nobody having thought of providing day nurseries for kittens, she left them on their own and resumed her mice hunting career. Their plaintive cries attracted the attention of Henrietta, a fine hen under whose feathery breast beats a tender heart.Henrietta took over the daties of mother and although the mother cat comes back to feed the little babies, Henrietta is in real charge and guards and watches them as jealously as she would her own chicks. The kittens are now three weeks old, they reconies Henrietta's cluck and will come to her when she calls although they will not go to any other Hen in the yard. Henrietta and her strange brood get a lot of visitors and their owner says anyone can have the kitten who wants them and what will poor Henrietta do then, poor thing. She'll have to find some other feathered or furred waifs and strays to take under her wing

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