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Apr. 17 Fur And Feather Blend Together. Hen Does Kitten Sitting For Mother Cat. Occasionally Mother nature plays strange tricks and provides an exception to the rule that fur and feather don't get on. It's on of these phenomenons which has provided the main topic of conversations amount 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 duties 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 recognise Henrietta's cluck and will come to her when she call 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 kittens who want 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. Henrietta And Her Brood. The kittens are playing happily in the sunshine, Henrietta has wandered off for a moment - perhaps to lay an egg - but she's not away long. The mothering instinct with her is very strong and she's worrying about these fluffy foster children of hers

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