Esthetic Fowls.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 29 August 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Esthetic Fowls.

A fiENiLEMVN owned some ducks which used to stand for hours about pome very brilliant china-asters in his border ■«, as it admiring their oolor. They did not peck at them as if drawn there by inaeots, but stood quite etlll and looked and looked, as if fascinated by the brilliant Ihim. By .md byo some rich purple flowers of another port bloomed out brightly, anl this Hpot, too, became n mignel for the dinks. They showed thoir ta«Uo also in another way. A >oun^ lady was playing one day on the piano for eomp'iny, and when she ccaspd two duekfl, which had by BOino means Htolon in, waddled ont from under the sofa and quacked loudly " Encore." All wero surprised and tri^d tho charms of mupic again upon thorn. Instantly they crouched down and listened as attentively as before. After this they wero often noticed to leave the field and travel toward the hou^e whenever they heard the piano. Maybe, tho old fable of Orpheus had porae foundation in fact after al l . —Farm and Garden.