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Apr. 17 Under Henrietta's Watchful Eye: Now three weeks old the kittens are getting adventurous and an old wooden box is ideal for claw sharpening and climbing, but Henrietta its always around watching them to see they come to no harm. Fur and feather blend together - at least in this corn merchant's yard where Henrietta the hen mothers these pretty little kitchen their own mother is out catching mice. fur and Feather blend together. Hen does Kitten sitting for mother cat: Occasionally Mother nature plays strange feather don't get on. It's one of these phenomenons 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 keener 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 plaintiva 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 (Illegible) Henrietta cluck and will come to hen 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 any one can have the kittens who wants them, and what will poor Henrietta then, poor thing, She'll have to find some other feathered or furred waifa and atrays to take under her wing

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