A Strange Family

A hen with a famiLy of ducks is not an uncommon sight, but a hen with a family of pups is a sight rarely witnessed. Such a sight, however, can be seen any day at the farm of John Leyda, Marión 7"ownhiP. a few miles east of Beaver Dam, Pa. Three weeks ago a Scotch collie dog belonging to Mr. Leyda gave birth to a litter of seven pups. During the day the dog left the barn and her family and went to the house for something to eat. In the barn near the pups was an old hen on a nest full of eggs. During the absence of the mother dog the pups began to whine. Straightway the old hen left her nest, went to the pups, and began gathering them under her ampie wings as well as she was able, and soon .'ïcked them to sleep. When the collie returned she made no objection to the arrangement, but laid down with them, and from that day to this the old hen has had charge of the little