Monday, May 11, 2026

DOG AND DUCK

 


DOG AND DUCK - A TRUE STORY

IN a recent number of the Leisure Hour there is a story of a chicken and a cat, which reminds me of a circumstance when I was at the vicarage of Willesden. We had a duck which, after losing her brood, comforted herself by making a friend of a large French poodle-dog, kennelled in the yard. The attachment was mutual and strong. The duck fed out of the dog's bowl and slept in his house. They had also their little gambols, when the dog sometimes would take the duck's neck into his mouth, I need not say without hurting his playmate.

R.W.B.

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